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turnip

(Science: botany) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

(Science: botany) [Formerly written also turnep] swedish turnip The turnip flea. A two-winged fly (anthomyia radicum) whose larvae live in the turnip root.

Origin: OE. Turnep; probably fr. Turn, or F. Tour a turn, turning lathe _ OE. Nepe a turnip, AS. Naepe, L. Napus. Cf. Turn, Navew.


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... now? Do you honestly believe a scam artist would put this much time and effort into turning a buck? You didn't hit your head when you fell off the turnip wagon did you?

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Bet you aint a Doc-poser. Why does every one feel threatened by Randy? Her points are quite valid. :? HUH......what turnip truck did you just fall off of? Doc44 valid my ascomycetes

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... hostile evidence to evolution. There's a difference between not supporting evolution and not supporting gradualism. Is it any more absurd than the turnip and rhinocerous being cousins, as proclaimed by goo-to-you evolution? Very distant cousins. And using the word absurd isn't going to win you ...

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