Definition of "ruta-baga" [ru•ta-ba•ga]

• A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See turnip. (noun)

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• "The ruta-baga is looking unusually well this fall, but we cannot subsist entirely upon the ruta-baga."
• "The seed of ruta-baga, or Swedish turnips, should be planted earliest -- from the twentieth of June to the tenth of July in our latitude."
• "Several kinds of Turnips are cultivated in this Province; the best of which is the ruta-baga, or Swedish turnip."