navew

English

Alternative forms

• naphew

Etymology

From Middle French naveau, navel, from Old French naveau, navel, from Medieval Latin napellus, a diminutive of Latin napus (“turnip, rapeseed, etc”). Compare napiform.

Noun

navew (plural navews)

1. A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “navew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)