Parsnip vs. Vegetable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Parsnip and Vegetable
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Parsnip
The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable closely related to carrot and parsley, all belonging to the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.
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Parsnip
A long tapering cream-coloured root vegetable with a sweet flavour
Roasted parsnips
A puree of celeriac and parsnip
Parsnip wine
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Vegetable
A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash.
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Parsnip
The Eurasian plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips.
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Vegetable
The edible part of such a plant.
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Parsnip
A plant (Pastinaca sativa) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.
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Vegetable
A member of the vegetable kingdom, especially a green plant.
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Parsnip
The root of this plant.
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Vegetable
Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.
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Parsnip
A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.
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Vegetable
Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant
Vegetable dyes.
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Parsnip
The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable.
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Vegetable
Made from or with edible plants or plant parts
Vegetable lasagna.
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Parsnip
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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Vegetable
Growing or reproducing like a plant.
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Parsnip
The whitish root of cultivated parsnip
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Vegetable
Any plant.
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Parsnip
A strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root
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Vegetable
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
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Parsnip
Whitish edible root; eaten cooked
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Vegetable
The edible part of such a plant.
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Vegetable
A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.
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Vegetable
Of or relating to plants.
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Vegetable
Of or relating to vegetables.
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Vegetable
Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Blooming ambrosial fruitOf vegetable gold.
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Vegetable
Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
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Vegetable
Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
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Vegetable
A plant. See Plant.
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Vegetable
A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
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Vegetable
A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state.
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Vegetable
Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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Vegetable
Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
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Vegetable
Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;
Decaying vegetable matter
A mineral deposit
Mineral water
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