Parsnip

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A strong-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa) cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.
  • n. The root of this plant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.
  • n. The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A biennial plant, Peucedanum (Pastinaca) sativum, native through temperate Europe and part of Asia, and widely cultivated in gardens, thence again running wild.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. whitish edible root; eaten cooked
  • n. the whitish root of cultivated parsnip
  • n. a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root
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    root vegetable    root   
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