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parsnip

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parsnip/ˈpɑːsnɪp/

▶noun

1 a long tapering cream-coloured root with a sweet flavour.

2 the plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips. [Pastinaca sativa.]

– origin ME: from OFr. pasnaie, from L. pastinaca (rel. to pastinare ‘dig and trench the ground’); ending assimilated to neep.

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