WATER PARSNIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water parsnip mean? 

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

1. stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER PARSNIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Sium suave; water parsnip

Hypernyms ("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 ("water parsnip" is a member of...):

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