GREATER WATER PARSNIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greater water parsnip mean? 

• GREATER WATER PARSNIP (noun)
  The noun GREATER WATER PARSNIP has 1 sense:

1. large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe

  Familiarity information: GREATER WATER PARSNIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREATER WATER PARSNIP (noun)

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Meaning:

Large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

greater water parsnip; Sium latifolium

Hypernyms ("greater water parsnip" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("greater water parsnip" is a member of...):

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)