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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.

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  • 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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  • the ancestor of parsnip

    September 6, 2009