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Parsnip vs. Vegetable — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

Parsnip

A long tapering cream-coloured root vegetable with a sweet flavour
Roasted parsnips
A puree of celeriac and parsnip
Parsnip wine

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.

Parsnip

The Eurasian plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips.
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Vegetable

The edible part of such a plant.

Parsnip

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

Vegetable

A member of the vegetable kingdom, especially a green plant.

Parsnip

The root of this plant.

Vegetable

Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.

Parsnip

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

Vegetable

Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant
Vegetable dyes.

Parsnip

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

Vegetable

Made from or with edible plants or plant parts
Vegetable lasagna.

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.

Vegetable

Growing or reproducing like a plant.

Parsnip

The whitish root of cultivated parsnip

Vegetable

Any plant.

Parsnip

A strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root

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.

Parsnip

Whitish edible root; eaten cooked

Vegetable

The edible part of such a plant.

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.

Vegetable

Of or relating to plants.

Vegetable

Of or relating to vegetables.

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.

Vegetable

Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.

Vegetable

Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

Vegetable

A plant. See Plant.

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.

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.

Vegetable

Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

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

Vegetable

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;
Decaying vegetable matter
A mineral deposit
Mineral water

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