'wild parsnip' definitions:
Definition of 'wild parsnip'
From: WordNet
noun
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 [syn: wild parsnip, madnep]
Definition of 'wild parsnip'
From: GCIDE
- Madnep \Mad"nep\, n.
- 1. (Bot.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium), a tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) A 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; called also wild parsnip. [WordNet 1.5]