parsnip
Meaning of parsnip
noun
- a long tapering cream-coloured root vegetable with a sweet flavour.
roasted parsnips
a puree of celeriac and parsnip
parsnip wine
- the Eurasian plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips.
late Middle English: from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca (related to pastinare ‘dig and trench the ground’). The change in the ending was due to association with neep.
Information about parsnip
- It is a name.
- The plural form of parsnip is: parsnips.
- Languages in which parsnip is used:
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Hyphenation of parsnip
parsnip
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- parsnip is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of parsnip
- Spanish: pastinaca, chirivía
- Italian: pastinaca
- French: panais
- Portuguese: pastinaca, pastinaga, cherovia
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