资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Navew \Na"vew\, n. [OE. navel, naveau, a dim. fr. L. napus
   navew. Cf. {Napiform}.] (Bot.)
   A kind of small turnip, a variety of {Brassica campestris}.
   See {Brassica}. [Writen also {naphew}.]

Turnip \Tur"nip\, n. [OE. turnep; probably fr. turn, or F. tour
   a turn, turning lathe + OE. nepe a turnip, AS. n[=ae]pe, L.
   napus. Cf. {Turn},v. t., {Navew}.] (Bot.)
   The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a
   cruciferous plant ({Brassica campestris}, var. {Napus});
   also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also {turnep}.]

   {Swedish turnip} (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See {Ruta-baga}.
      

   {Turnip flea} (Zo["o]l.), a small flea-beetle ({Haltica, or
      Phyllotreta, striolata}), which feeds upon the turnip, and
      often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of
      yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to
      several other small insects which are injurious to
      turnips. See Illust. under {Flea-beetle}.

   {Turnip fly}. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The turnip flea.
   (b) A two-winged fly ({Anthomyia radicum}) whose larv[ae]
       live in the turnip root.

Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, G. r["u]be.]
   (Bot.)
   A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the
   turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used
   for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for
   the food of cage birds.

   Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been
         variously named, but are all now believed to be derived
         from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some
         is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({B.
         oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}.

   {Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary.

   {Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been
      expressed from the seed.

   {Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.

   {Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.