PASTINACA SATIVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pastinaca sativa mean? 

• PASTINACA SATIVA (noun)
  The noun PASTINACA SATIVA has 1 sense:

1. a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root

  Familiarity information: PASTINACA SATIVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTINACA SATIVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

parsnip; Pastinaca sativa

Hypernyms ("Pastinaca sativa" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pastinaca sativa"):

cultivated parsnip (European biennial having a long fusiform root that has been made palatable through cultivation)

madnep; wild parsnip (biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip)

Holonyms ("Pastinaca sativa" is a member of...):

genus Pastinaca; Pastinaca (a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips)