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Turnip greens   /tˈərnəp grinz/   Listen
Turnip greens

noun
1.
Tender leaves of young white turnips.





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"Turnip greens" Quotes from Famous Books



... usually eats breakfast in the field, the wife staying behind to prepare it. It consists of pork and corn bread. The family come from the field about noon and have dinner consisting of pork and corn bread, with collards, turnip greens, roasting ears, etc. At sundown work stops and supper is eaten, the menu being as at breakfast. The pork eaten by the Negroes, it may be said, is almost solid fat, two or three inches thick, lean meat not ...
— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey


Words linked to "Turnip greens" :   greens, green, Brassica rapa, leafy vegetable, turnip, white turnip


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