Turnip

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 654

ter'nip, n. A cruciferous plant of many spe- cies; its solid, bulbous root, which valued as an article of food. [Perh. fr. F. tour, a wheel (fr. its roundne , tounier = E. to turn, q. v.), and AS. niep, L. nap us, a turnip.]