parsnip
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- noun
- /ˈpɑːrsnɪp/
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chirivía
- Farmers in Virginia enjoyed cucumbers, muskmelons, pumpkins, potatoes, parsnips.
- carrots and parsnips
- potatoes and parsnips
- turnips and parsnips
Things like celery, things like parsnips, they take a whole season to grow.
- Things like celery, things like parsnips, they take a whole season to grow.
- Roots, beets, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes and the like along with little bits of honey and dark chocolate.
Examples
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I was raised in the Northeast with Yankee pot roast, rutabagas, split pea soup, parsnips, rye bread, and bagels.
Blog text (28) -
Add the celery, parsnip, salt, and pepper to taste; cook about 12 minutes, until the celery is soft.
Blog text (9) -
I never ate a parsnip before, and I'm telling you that, at least not if I knew it.
Fiction book (1995) -
Parsnip, turnip, everything for soup.
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I served it with the carrot and parsnip puree, and truly, this could be a company dinner.
Blog text (23) -
Instead we had nut loaf with parsnip gravy.
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Along with parsnips, onions, and squash, the potatoes will keep in the cellar well into spring.
Fiction book (1999) -
Examples include parsnips, beets, and carrots (and no, carrot cake is not considered a vegetable option).
Blog text (17) -
Shafer Farm's venison loin with parsnip gratin and onion confit.
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At Christmas, Matt had prepared a goose and cooked parsnips from the root cellar.
Synonyms
A long white root vegetable with a sweet, earthy taste used in cooking
A long white root vegetable like a carrot, grown for food
Compounds
- US
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8.8
A tall wild plant with thick stems and white or purple flower groups that can irritate your skin
A tall plant with white flower clusters that grows in shallow fresh water
Surface Forms
Etymology
Parsnip comes from an old Latin word pastinaca for a dug-up root and is linked to parsley, because parsnips are in the same family as parsley. So a helpful way to remember parsnip is to think of it as a 'parsley root' — a pale, sweet root vegetable you cook and eat.