Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A turnip-shaped variety of the common radish.
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Examples
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There were also several specimens of the original old turnip-radish, with large shrubs of heads, and mature feelers many inches long.
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_figl_, is like a turnip-radish in flavor; but he has omitted one more vegetable, lentils, which were always, as at the present day, the chief article of their diet; and which Strabo very properly adds to the number.
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M. Claas M.lder has figured and described a case in the turnip-radish of the unusual formation of a leafy shoot from the root, apparently after injury. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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