ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARSNIP
From Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastināca, from pastināre to dig, from pastinum two-pronged tool for digging; also influenced by Middle English nepeturnip.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARSNIP»
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The Wild Vegan Cookbook: A Forager's Culinary Guide (In the ...
Don't handle cou> parsnip with sweaty hands if you're going to be exposed to the
sun; you may get a rash. Although it's related to the common parsnip and the
spicy-smelling taproots are edible cooked, the best parts of the cow parsnip are
the ...
Wild parsnip roots are wiry, tough, and much less palatable than roots of the
domesticated parsnip. The wild parsnip has an undeserved reputation for being
poisonous (contact with the foliage causes severe dermatitis in sensitive
individuals, ...
Parsnip is a slow-growing, deep-rooted plant. The flowers are pollinated by
insects. Parsnip is self-fertile. Ecology Parsnip is a cool season crop. Optimum
temperature for growth is 15–18°C. Roots produced under warm conditions do
not have ...
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Vegetable Diseases: A Color Handbook
Introduction and significance Parsnip yellow fleck virus (PYFV) is widespread,
infects many Apiaceae plants, and occasionally causes severe losses in carrot
crops in the Netherlands and in the UK. This is the most common virus disease of
...
Steven T. Koike, Peter Gladders, Albert O. Paulus, 2007
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A General System of Gardening and Botany: Containing a ...
Parsnip wine is also made in some places ; and they afford an excellent ardent
spirit when distilled after a similar preparatory process to that bestowed on
potatoes, destined for that purpose." The following are the varieties : — 1
Common ...
Major Cultivars The parsnip remains mainly a home garden vegetable, and
hence there has been little effort to improve or expand cultivars beyond the
standard All American, Hollow Crown, and Harris Model types. Major seed
houses in ...
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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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Vegetable Seed Production
The honey pro— duced by bees working on parsnip flowers is reputed to be dark
in colour and of very good quality. Small enclosed lots of flowering parsnips in
cages or structures are gener— ally pollinated by blowflies put into the enclosure
...
Raymond A. T. George, 2009
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Wildflowers of Edmonton and Central Alberta
WHERE, WHEN AND WHAT TO LOOK FOR Water parsnip, common along
lakeshores and edges of sloughs, is often found growing together with a closely
related and poisonous species, water hemlock (Cicuta maculata L.). Both species
are ...
France Royer, Richard Dickinson, 1996
Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)— Apiaceae (Carrot) Family The sweet, warming
parsnip looks like a pale version of its relative, the carrot (both are members of
the Apiaceae, the carrot family). Parsnip contains beta-carotene, folk acid, vitamin
C, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARSNIP»
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HEALTHFUL HINT
A good article appeared in the Daily News on July 5 about wild parsnip and the photosensitivity sunburn-like reaction it may cause when a ... «Winona Daily News, Jul 15»
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Chef Dan Hunter's innovative dessert of fried parsnip skin with apple and parsnip mousse is remarkable. Savour the brandy-snap texture of the ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
So Here's a Nightmare That Can Happen If You Drink Outside
but other citrus fruits, celery, wild parsnip, wild dill, wild parsley, and some wildflowers are also culprits. Advertisement - Continue Reading ... «Cosmopolitan.com, Jul 15»
Cycling a circle around the Newcastle community
I was delighted to see more Clarington crews out clearing the areas of the wild parsnip and Queen Anne's Lace. I thanked an employee for all ... «durhamregion.com, Jul 15»
Ministers intervene after spate of cat poisonings
Mark Spencer, Conservative MP for Sherwood, who has a cat called Parsnip, called for tougher sentences for people who deliberately poison ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
DEC: Hogweed's little brother spreads
Wild parsnip plants with yellow flowers that are blooming across the Southern Tier can cause burns similar to giant hogweed, but not as severe. «Olean Times Herald, Jul 15»
Wild parsnip: Why this cheery, yellow plant can give you blisters
It may look harmless but the wild parsnip, a plant from the same family as the root vegetable, can cause dangerous skin irritations. Originally ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
Family life: Mystery girl, Eagle by Abba and Uncle Pete's pink …
Family life: Mystery girl, Eagle by Abba and Uncle Pete's pink parsnip dip. Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipes. Amanda ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
A crime novel so incompetent it might have been written by a child
... set in south-west London, involves poison and people with names like George and Esmeralda, who drink parsnip wine, whatever that is. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
Pickering boy, 11 burned by toxic wild parsnip
OSHAWA -- Wild parsnip is rampant in Durham Region this summer. The sap from the noxious plant and sunlight cause a chemical reaction ... «durhamregion.com, Jul 15»
