单词 | rutabaga |
释义 | rutabagan. Now chiefly U.S. A type of brassica having a rounded, turnip-like root with firm yellow or white flesh, Brassica napus (Napobrassica group); the root of this plant, used as a vegetable or fodder for animals. Also †rutabaga turnip. Also called swede, Swedish turnip.The rutabaga may have arisen by hybridization of the turnip and the cabbage, probably occurring in Finland in the sixteenth or early seventeenth cent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip > types of navew1527 navet1530 round rape1559 nape1562 round turnip1599 French turnip1731–3 Indian turnip1735 orange jelly1769 rutabaga1789 Swedish turnipc1791 Swede1812 teltow turnip1866 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > types of rapea1398 round rape1559 nape1562 round turnip1599 yellow turnip1707 Indian turnip1735 tankard-turnip1744 orange jelly1769 white loaf1775 rutabaga1789 Swedish turnipc1791 Swedish turnipc1791 red-top1805 white top1807 Swede1812 yellow-top1838 ox-heart1846 1789 Ann. Agric. 11 342 I now inclose a small parcel of the Roota Baga seed. 1796 J. Donaldson Mod. Agric. II. 318 There was a new species of turnips lately introduced, called Ruta Baga, or Swedish turnip, respecting the superior excellence of which..much has been said and written. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 10 Hog-wash or grains, or ruta baga, none Has yet been ours since your reign begun. 1833 W. Sewall Diary 20 June (1930) 149/2 Finished planting potatoes. Sowed rutabaga turnips. 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 376 The great landlake..rimmed with the green and purple verdure of the turnip and ruta-baga. 1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 213 The type shape is similar to a rutabaga, but the roots are smooth without laterals. 1951 O. Nash Family Reunion 107 We gobbled like pigs On rutabagas and salted figs. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse iii. 23 Soon she too craved the strange meat and rutabaga pasties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789 |
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