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TURNIP GREENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does turnip greens mean?
• TURNIP GREENS (noun)
The noun TURNIP GREENS has 1 sense:
1. tender leaves of young white turnips
Familiarity information: TURNIP GREENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tender leaves of young white turnips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("turnip greens" is a kind of...):
green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)
Holonyms ("turnip greens" is a part of...):
Brassica rapa; turnip; white turnip (widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root)
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