【How-to】How to fix turnips - Howto.org

So once and for all, let us call it as it is: turnip equals small and delicate and white; swede equals large and rough and yellow. … The word rutabaga, on the other hand, comes from the Swedish dialectal word rotabagge, from “root” and “bagge” (lump, bunch). Rutabaga is the common name for a swede in North America.