turnip

«turnip» in Mova's school dictionary: a round root vegetable with white flesh and a white and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a turnip, turnips)

meaning for a pupil

1) A turnip is a round root vegetable with white flesh and a white and purple skin. tree →

2) (UK informal, old) Calling someone a turnip means they are stupid. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons a turnip is a root that stores food for the plant. In history, Turnip Townshend grew turnips to feed cattle in winter. In Scotland and the north of England «turnip» or «neep» may mean the bigger yellow swede. Stories like «The Enormous Turnip» are read in infant classes. In Ireland and Scotland people carved turnips as lanterns at Halloween before pumpkins.

examples

• Grandad grows turnips in his garden. tree →
• The Enormous Turnip was too big to pull up. tree →
• We had mashed turnip with our dinner. tree →
• Sheep eat turnips in winter. tree →
• Children carved scary faces in turnips for Halloween. tree →
• A turnip is a root vegetable. tree →
• Go! count the turnips in yonder meadow. tree →

note

Countable: turnips. «Swede» (UK) = «rutabaga» (US) is a different, yellow vegetable, though people mix them up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «turnip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.