Pastinaca sativa

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Pastinaca sativa - a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root parsnip herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Pastinaca, Pastinaca - a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips 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