wild parsnip

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsmadnep

   Broaderparsnipweed

Questions about wild parsnip

What does wild parsnip mean?

wild parsnip means "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".

What is another word for wild parsnip?

Close synonyms include madnep. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wild parsnip a common word?

wild parsnip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.