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Parsnip vs. Vegetable

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Parsnipnoun

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

Vegetablenoun

Any plant.

Parsnipnoun

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

Vegetablenoun

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, or spice in the culinary sense.

Parsnipnoun

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.

Vegetablenoun

The edible part of such a plant.

Parsnipnoun

the whitish root of cultivated parsnip

Vegetablenoun

A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

Parsnipnoun

a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to plants.

Parsnipnoun

whitish edible root; eaten cooked

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to vegetables.

Parsnipnoun

a long tapering cream-coloured root vegetable with a sweet flavour

‘roasted parsnips’; ‘a puree of celeriac and parsnip’; ‘parsnip wine’;

Vegetableadjective

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.’;

Parsnipnoun

the Eurasian plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips.

Vegetableadjective

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

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.

Vegetableadjective

Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.

Vegetablenoun

A plant. See Plant.

Vegetablenoun

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.

Vegetablenoun

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.

Vegetablenoun

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

Vegetablenoun

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

Vegetableadjective

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;

‘decaying vegetable matter’; ‘a mineral deposit’; ‘mineral water’;

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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