rutabaga

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  1. noun A European plant (Brassica napus var. napobrassica) having a thick bulbous root used as food and as livestock feed.
  2. noun The edible root of this plant.

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  • Everyone was looking at her now and she thought if she were a teacher, she wouldn't pick on a new student that way. —  Outside In
  • On one such evening dark and cool, Sethe cut a rutabaga into four pieces and left them stewing. —  Beloved
  • Above the patter of the pea sorting and the sharp odor of cooking rutabaga, Sethe explained the crystal that once hung from her ears. —  Beloved
  • Tasslehoff closed his eyes so he wouldn't have to see the gnome, but he saw him anyway-his nut-brown face and his wispy hair that floated about his head as though he were perpetually poking his finger into one of his own inventions, perhaps the steam-powered preambulating hubble-bubble or the locomotive, self-winding rutabaga slicer. —  Dragons Of A Vanished Moon
  • "'Jeff,' says he, 'I've been thinking that we ought to drop these rutabaga fanciers and give our attention to something more nourishing and prolific. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
 

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  1. Swedish dialectal rotabagge : rot, root (from Old Norse rōt; see wrād- in Indo-European roots) + bagge, bag (from Old Norse baggi).

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  1. = French rutabaga; of Swedish or Lapp. origin (?).
 

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/rutəˈbeɪgə/
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