pars´nip|like´

pars´nip|like´: pars|nip «PAHRS nihp», noun.

1. a plant having compound leaves, yellow flowers, and a long, tapering whitish root that in the cultivated variety is fleshy, sweet, and nutritious. It is a biennial plant which belongs to the parsley family and is native to Europe and parts of Asia.

2. its root, which is eaten as a vegetable.

3. any one of certain allied or similar plants.

╂[alteration of Middle English passenep < Old French pasnaie < Latin pastināca; influenced by Middle English nep turnip, neep]

–pars´nip|like´, adjective.

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