Parsnip

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

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Cow parsnip
·- A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in ...

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Water parsnip
·- Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leav...

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parsnip, wild
n. a poisonous weed, Trachymene australis, Benth., N.O. Umbelliferae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
wild parsnip
n. See parsnip, wild. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
cow parsnip
(Heracleuin latanum.) The popular name of a plant classed among the herbs prepared by the 'Shakers,'...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.