| NOUN | plant | Pastinaca sativa, parsnip | a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root |
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| Meaning | A strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root. | |
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| Synonym | parsnip | |
| Member of | Pastinaca, genus Pastinaca | A rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae |
| Narrower | cultivated parsnip | European biennial having a long fusiform root that has been made palatable through cultivation |
| wild parsnip, madnep | biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root | |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| Spanish | chirivía, pastinaca | |
| Catalan | xirivia | |
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