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cow parsnip

Meaning of "cow parsnip" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COW PARSNIP

cow parsnip


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COW PARSNIP

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Cow parsnip is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COW PARSNIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heracleum maximum

Heracleum maximum, Cow Parsnip is the only member of the genus Heracleum native to North America. Its classification has caused some difficulty, with recent authoritative sources referring to it variously as Heracleum maximum or Heracleum lanatum, as H. linatum, or as either a subspecies, H. sphondylium subsp. montanum, or a variety, H. sphondylium var. linatum, of the Common Hogweed. The classification given here follows ITIS.

Definition of cow parsnip in the English dictionary

The definition of cow parsnip in the dictionary is any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers Also called: hogweed, keck.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COW PARSNIP

cow · cow bail · cow cockies · cow cocky · cow college · cow dung · Cow Gum · cow parsley · cow pillow · cow pony · cow shark · cow tree · cow-spanker · cowage · cowal · cowan · coward · cowardice · cowardliness · cowardly

WORDS THAT END LIKE COW PARSNIP

catnip · frostnip · genip · nip · parsnip · pogonip · prairie turnip · snip · Swedish turnip · turnip · water parsnip · wild parsnip

Synonyms and antonyms of cow parsnip in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cow parsnip» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COW PARSNIP

Find out the translation of cow parsnip to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cow parsnip from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cow parsnip» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

牛防风
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

pastinaca de vaca
570 millions of speakers
en

English

cow parsnip
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

गाय चुकंदर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجزر الأبيض البقر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

борщевик
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

flã vaca
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

গরু উদ্যানপালন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

berce laineuse
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Parsnip lembu
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Kuh Pastinak
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

牛パースニップ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

소 양방 풀 나물
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Sapi parsnip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

củ cải bò
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பன்றி முறுக்கு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

गाय गाळण्यासाठी वापरण्यात येणारा एक पाला व त्याचे झाड
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

maydanoz türü bir bitki
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pastinaca mucca
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

krowa pasternak
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

борщівник
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

păstârnac vacă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παστινάκι αγελάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koei pastinaak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kopalsternackan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ku pastinakk
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COW PARSNIP»

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The Wild Vegan Cookbook: A Forager's Culinary Guide (In the ...
Serve Sacred Cow Parsnip hot on brown rice or with Indian bread, garnished with the peanuts. SERVES 6 COW PARSNIP PILAF The powerful celery-like flavor of cow parsnip leaf- stalks comes shining through in this wonderful whole- grain ...
Steve Brill, 2010
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Wildflowers of Iowa Woodlands
Despite the disagreeable odor, the cow parsnip is an edible plant. Indians liked the young stems and leaf petioles, both raw and cooked, as a celery-like vegetable. They also boiled the fleshy branched taproot as a potato substitute. Leaves ...
Sylvan T. Runkel, Alvin F. Bull, 2009
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Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
COW YarSHip Parsley Family Heracleum lanatum Umbelliferae Cow parsnip is unquestionably the easiest member of the Umbel family to recognize. Like other members of the carrot-parsley clan, Heracleum has umbrella-shaped clusters of ...
Gregory L. Tilford, 1997
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The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
Using logistic regression, the best predictors of local mismatches in this interaction are the nearby presence of cow parsnip and high xanthotoxin production within the local wild parsnip population. Frequency of attack is lower in populations ...
John N. Thompson, 2005
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Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, Second Edition
COW PARSNIP (Heracleum sphondylium L.) + Activities (Cow Parsnip) — Allergenic (1; FNF; PH2); Anthelmintic (f; HHB); Antiseptic (f; DEM); Depurative (f; DEM); Emmenagogue (f; HHB); Expectorant (f; PH2); Laxative (f; DEM); Mutagenic (1; ...
James A. Duke, 2002
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Roadside Plants and Flowers: A Traveler's Guide to the ...
Cow Parsnip (Masterwort) — Heracleum lanatum Angelica — Angelica atropurpurea Water Hemlock (Cowbane) — Cicuta maculata In addition to queen anne's lace, which is surely the prettiest wild member of the Parsley family, you will find ...
Marian S. Edsall, 1985
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Alaska's Southeast, 11th: Touring the Inside Passage
Cow Parsnip The cow parsnip also has gigantic leaves. This plant appears along roadsides and in meadows, forest clearings, and many a domestic garden where it is not wanted. The hollow green stem is striated like celery or rhubarb, hence ...
Mike Miller, 2008
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Alien Species and Evolution: The Evolutionary Ecology of ...
(2002) examined the shift of the parsnip webworm (Depressaria pastinacella) from its principal European host, wild parsnip (Pastinaca satioa), to cow parsnip ( Heracleum lanatum) in North America. In this case, not only is survival of webworm ...
George W. Cox, 2013
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The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
1 1'1;- "rw fir “7 -_—~ r— _,. _" -_v_ I .'W T_. ___ li'r - Of the Cow-parsnip. 287 lately I have supposed that he used the roots of the same plant of which I have used the seeds before and since that time, successfully, for the epilepsy, and have ...
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The New England Journal of Medicine
COW-PARSNIP. To the Editor ofthe Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. SIR,-— Although your correspondents have nearly established the botanical character of the ('ow-parsnip of Dr. Partridge, l herewith send you a specimen of the plant, ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COW PARSNIP»

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Skin-burning plant creeping closer to your backyard
Marie, but they all have been cow parsnip,” said Alison Kirkpatrick, terrestrial invasive species outreach liaison for Ontario Federation of ... «SooToday.com, Jul 15»
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Plant causes severe burns
It is often confused with Cow Parsnip, Angelica, Queen Anne's Lace and Wild Parsnip. According to a 2015 map of active Giant Hogweed sites, ... «Wellsville Daily Reporter, Jul 15»
3
Know signs for grizzly bears
... in the spring they eat young green vegetation, winter-killed animals, ants, grasses, sedges, clover, dandelion, cow parsnip and other plants. «Bonners Ferry Herald, Jul 15»
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Swimming to altitude
Cow Parsnip blisters will pop up a day or two later to remind you of the joys of the bushwhack all over again, but somehow I have come to find ... «Juneau Empire, Jul 15»
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Toxic plants popping up in parks
Cow Parsnip is native, so doesn't threaten the ecological balance like Hogweed. A critical difference for conservatio authorities who have to ... «Globalnews.ca, Jun 15»
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Gardener Warns Of Giant Hogweed Dangers After Being Left With …
The gardener came out in huge blisters after he brushed against the giant plant, which is also known as Cow Parsnip and is found along most ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
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All animals, including birds multiply in June
Cow parsnip as tall as a person appears with umbrella shaped white blossoms along stream bands and marsh edges. Duckweed, a tiny ... «Sandusky Register, Jun 15»
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Why Everyone Can Relax About A Huge Blistering Plant Called …
Giant Hogweed is often mistaken for Cow Parsnip or Queen Ann's Lace. (In reality it towers over those plants, standing around 20-feet tall.) ... «Torontoist, Jun 15»
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Giant Hogweed look-a-like near Harrow prompts info on identifying …
Cow parsnip has smaller leaves than the Giant Hogweed and are not as jagged. Also the stem does not have the purple blotches and ... «Windsor Star, Jun 15»
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On the Trails: Tricky flowers
The smaller flowers of angelica and cow parsnip and their relatives do the same, but present the flowers in flat-topped bunches, making a ... «Juneau Empire, Jun 15»
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