noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A girl pulling swedes in a field senses the shadow of parachutes and gapes up, knees braced and hair tangling.
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A member of the Brassica family, it requires the same fine, neutral, humus-rich seed-bed as swedes.
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All these crops are for feeding the farm stock, the swedes often being grazed insitu during the winter.
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Always choose a bright swede over a dull one.
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I have occasionally grown a field of kale and swedes in alternating six-row bouts for strip grazing.
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One family in the Borders was growing 7.5 ha of swedes for human consumption.
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Their favourites are sugar beet, turnips and swedes where these are still available.
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Today's main dish was cabbage and swede stew with dumplings.