DCHP-1 Online
wild turnip 
1 n. Obs. jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum.
See also: Indian turnip (def. 2)
- 1796 (1911) I gathered a great many plants [including] dewberries; wild turnip, which cures a cough--it is like aram.
2 See prairie turnip 1892 quote
See also: prairie turnip
- 1879 Their women are also at work early and late every day digging wild turnips and gathering berries.
- 1887 I was surprised to see that there was no mention made . . . of the root known by us as the wild turnip or buffalo root.
- 1930 And they had seen Mistress Currie sitting down on the ground outside the fort eating wild turnips, with some squaws.
- 1796 (1911) I gathered a great many plants [including] dewberries; wild turnip, which cures a cough--it is like aram.