English > Sium: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips. |
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| Synonym | genus Sium |
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| Member of | Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, Apiaceae, family Apiaceae, carrot family | plants having flowers in umbels |
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| Members | greater water parsnip, Sium latifolium | large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water |
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| skirret, Sium sisarum | An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root |
| water parsnip, Sium suave | stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water |
| Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
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| Spanish | genus sium, sium |
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| Catalan | genus sium, sium |
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