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usually uncountable, plural rutabagas
(now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica examples
(now Canada, US) The edible root of this plant quotations examples
Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, noneHas yet been ours since your reign begun.
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts