parsnip

A plant (Pastinaca sativa) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.

The root of this plant.

A biennial plant, Peucedanum (Pastinaca) sativum, native through temperate Europe and part of Asia, and widely cultivated in gardens, thence again running wild.

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.

See Cow parsnip.

the European cow parsnip.

the wild stock of the parsnip.

any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.

A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.

The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable.