The turnip is a member of which vegetable family?
Turnip Turnip The turnip or white turnip ("Brassica rapa" subsp. "rapa") is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, fleshy taproot. The word "turnip" is a compound of "tur-" as in turned/rounded on a lathe and "neep", derived from Latin "napus", the word for the plant. Small, tender varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties are grown as feed for livestock. In the north of England, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and eastern Canada (Newfoundland), turnip (or "neep") often refers to rutabaga, a larger, yellow root vegetable in the same genus (Brassica) also known as swede
Turnip Degh". In Bangladesh and West Bengal, it is known as Shaalgom (শালগম). It is a common winter vegetable. In Brazil, turnips () are traditionally regarded as distasteful, or at least somewhat disagreeable and unpleasant at the first bite or taste. Part of this bias reportedly stems from the Middle Ages, where, for the reason of being inexpensive, turnips became in Iberia (and thus in Iberian-descended cultures) associated with the poor, and avoided in the diet of the nobility. The turnip is an old vegetable charge in heraldry. It was used by Leonhard von Keutschach, prince-archbishop of Salzburg. The turnip is