The pronunciation of turnip is Wú jīng.

Cited explanation:

1. Plant name. Also known as cranberry. The tuberous root is fleshy and the flower is yellow. Tubers can be made into vegetables. Commonly known as datura.

Citation:

Dong Guan Han Ji Huan Di Ji: "The order of the wounded counties, all planted turnips, to help the people eat."

Tang Han Yu's "Feeling of Spring" Poem No. 2: "Yellow turnip flowers, peach and plum things have receded."

Cao Yin's poem titled "Playing with the West Garden" said, "The turnips on the road have lost their freshness, and the roses have weakened to the point that they are not beautiful."

National Dictionary:

Botanical Name. Cruciferae Brassicaceae, annual or biennial herbs. Roots compressed globose, fleshy white or red, stems erect. Leaves narrow and long, with low, irregularly serrated margins, yellow flowers in spring, in racemes, with brown seeds. The roots and young leaves are edible.

Morphological Characteristics:

Plant Turnip, also known as ground cranberry "Nei Menggu Botanical Records", flat turnip, round root (Yunnan, Tibet), panchayote (Zhejiang). For biennial herbs, up to 100 cm high; tuberous roots fleshy, spherical, oblate or oblong, outer skin white, yellow or red, root fleshy white or yellow, no spicy flavor; stems erect, branched, slightly hairy in the lower part, glabrous in the upper part.

Basal leaves lyrate or compound, 20-34 cm long, terminal lobe or leaflet very large, margin undulate or lobed, lateral lobes or leaflets about 5 pairs, tapering downward, with a few scattered prickly hairs above and white sharp prickly hairs below; petiole 10-16 cm long, with small lobes; middle and upper stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3-12 cm long, glabrous, pruinose, base broadly cordate broadly cordate, at least half-amplexicaul, sessile. Racemes terminal; flowers 4-5 mm in diameter; pedicels 10-15 mm long; sepals oblong, 4-6 mm long.

Petals bright yellow, oblanceolate, 4-8 mm long, shortly clawed. Long-horned fruit linear, 3.5-8 cm long, petals with 1 conspicuous midvein; beak 10-20 mm long; fruiting pedicel up to 3 cm long. Seeds globose, ca. 1.8 mm in diam., light yellow-brown, black near the umbilicus, with finely reticulate areoles. Flowering March-April, fruiting May-June.