parsnip : Idioms & Phrases

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Cow parsnip

  • noun tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers
    Heracleum sphondylium; hogweed.
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  • . See Cow parsnip.
Webster 1913

cultivated parsnip

  • noun European biennial having a long fusiform root that has been made palatable through cultivation
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greater water parsnip

  • noun large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe
    Sium latifolium.
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Meadow parsnip

  • the European cow parsnip.
Webster 1913

Poison parsnip

  • the wild stock of the parsnip.
Webster 1913

Water parsnip

  • noun stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia
    Sium suave.
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  • any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.
Webster 1913

wild parsnip

  • noun biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip
    madnep.
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