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wild parsnip

noun

  1. a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip


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On roadside banks, particularly in chalky districts, we may often meet with the Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa).

The wild parsnip is good for gravel, and for heartbeat there's nothing so good as dandelion.

For the convulsions caused by wild parsnip there was the wonder-working yerba del pasmo.

In 1847 we collected some wild parsnip seed from the top of the Cotteswolds, where this is among the most frequent of weeds.

They carried me in and found I had been eating wild parsnip and was very sick.

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