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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tall umbelliferous plant, Heracleum Sphondylium, of Europe and subarctic regions.
- noun Heracleum lanatum, the cowparsnip or masterwort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The masterwort (
Peucedanum Ostruthium ), a tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant. - noun (Bot.) A biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip; called also
wild parsnip .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip
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fbharjo commented on the word madnep
the ancestor of parsnip
September 6, 2009