rutabaga

• ruta-baga

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).^[1][2]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
   • 2007, James Wilcox, Hunk City:

     They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.

2. (now Canada, US) The edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     Chipper […] understood how his entire dinner might be scarfabl' in no time, his duties discharged and his freedom regained, and he actually picked up his fork and made a pass at the craggy wad of rutabaga […]

• swede, Swedish turnip

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/

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rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

• “rutabaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).

• IPA^(key): /ru.taˈba.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: ru‧ta‧bà‧ga

rutabaga f (plural rutabaghe)

1. Synonym of navone (“oilseed rape”)

• rutabaga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Hyphenation: ru‧ta‧ba‧ga

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo