rutabaga
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) + bagge (“bag”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)
- (Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus
- (Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
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Translations[edit]
edible root
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)
Further reading[edit]
- “rutabaga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)
- rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)
Synonyms[edit]
- (rutabaga): colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo
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- English 4-syllable words
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- Canadian English
- American English
- en:Brassicas
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- French 4-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
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- French countable nouns
- fr:Vegetables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns