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SWEED/swiːd/

A swede is a large round root vegetable with purple-brown skin and yellow flesh (UK; US rutabaga). A turnip is smaller and usually white inside, so do not mix them in recipes. It is often mashed with carrot for a roast dinner. Countable (a swede), and not a person from Sweden in this kitchen sense.

Meaning

A large round root vegetable with yellow flesh (UK; US rutabaga).

Examples

• “Mash the swede with carrot for Sunday lunch.”
• “Peel the swede thickly; the skin is tough.”
• “Swede in a stew holds its shape better than potato.”

Good to know

a swede (UK vegetable). US: rutabaga. Contrast: a turnip (usually white flesh). Not “a Swede” (nationality) in this sense.

Near in meaning

rutabaga

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