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 Swed·ish a.  Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
 Swedish turnip. Bot. See under Turnip.

 Tur·nip n.  Bot. The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.]
 Swedish turnip Bot., a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga.
 Turnip flea Zool., a small flea-beetle (Haltica, striolata syn. Phyllotreta striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it.  It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron.  The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle.
 Turnip fly. Zool. (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvae live in the turnip root.
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 Swedish turnip
      n 1: a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
           [syn: rutabaga, turnip cabbage, swede, rutabaga
           plant, Brassica napus napobrassica]
      2: the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food [syn:
          rutabaga, swede, yellow turnip]