| 单词 | turnip-tops |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturnip-tops a. The fleshy, globular or spheroidal root of a biennial cruciferous plant, Brassica Rapa, var. depressa, having toothed, somewhat hairy leaves, and yellow flowers, cultivated from ancient times as a culinary vegetable, and for feeding sheep and cattle; also, the plant itself, of which the young shoots ( turnip-tops) are frequently boiled as greens. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip neepeOE rapea1398 rave?1440 turnip1539 knoll1669 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip neepeOE rave?1440 turnip1539 rape1562 knoll1669 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 25 Turnepes beinge welle boyled in water, and after with fatte fleshe, norysheth moche. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 113 The great round rape, called commonly a turnepe, groweth in very great plenty in all Germany. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xiii. 571 The best Husbandmen..give order, That the ground for Turneps [L. napum] should have five tilthes. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 508 There are diuers sorts of Turneps, as white, yellow, and red. 1672 Court-bk. Barony of Urie (1892) 92 Some people..did steall furth thereof turnepes and carrottis and uther rootis. 1759 in Q. Jrnl. Econ. (1907) Nov. 78 In case of Wet Weather while the Sheep are at turneps they are to have the Liberty of Great Oxenden. 1764 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 63 Agreed at vestry to sow Sandhill turnoops this next year. 1782 Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 282 A wet week in the middle did not greatly hurt the hay, and was very good for the turnips. 1839 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 168 I brought home 18 prime partridges and I lost another in the high turnips. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 315 We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin. < as lemmas |
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