Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. · The plant from which this is obtained. · The turnip. · The head.
From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.
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