parsnip

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Before the fabulous albino root known as the parsnip disappears, I thought I would send along a recipe that is easy to make, although it takes a while to bake.

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  1. noun A strong-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa) cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.
  2. noun The root of this plant.

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  • The parsnip, always better and more sugary after a frost, was special. —  Latest Isle of Wight News
  • I was pulling wild parsnip -- a noxious weed around here -- today and noticed several plants were occupied by numerous ants tending some other small insect. —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • Wild parsnip is an awful exotic, degrading vast stretches of grassland desparately needed by threatened grassland birds. —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • Before the fabulous albino root known as the parsnip disappears, I thought I would send along a recipe that is easy to make, although it takes a while to bake. —  Everydaystranger
  • Of everything in the bowl, only the parsnip was from the supermarket. —  Toast
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  1. Middle English pasnepe, alteration (influenced by nep, turnip) of Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastināca, from pastinum, a kind of two-pronged dibble.

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  1. Formerly also parsnep, parsenip, pasnep; from ME. parsenip, pasneep,pasnepe, from OF. pastenaque, also pastenade, pastenaille, pastenague, F. pastenade, panais = Provencal pastenaga, pastenagla = Spanish Portuguese Italian pastinaca = Dutch pastinak, pasternak = Middle Low German pasternake, LG. palsternak = Old High German pastinaga, pastinac, MHG. pasteney, Middle High German G. pastinake, pasternak = Danish pastinak = Swedish palsternacka, from L. pastinaca, a parsnip, from pastinum, a kind of two-forked dibble: see pastine. The termination has been apparently influenced by that of turnip.
 

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