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Noun: turnip cabbage
  1. A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
    - rutabaga [N. Amer], swede [Brit], Swedish turnip, rutabaga plant [N. Amer], Brassica napus napobrassica
     
  2. Fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
    - kohlrabi

Derived forms: turnip cabbages

Type of: cruciferous vegetable, turnip plant

Part of: Brassica, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, genus Brassica, kohlrabi

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