SIUM SISARUM

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Meaning:

An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

Synonyms:

Sium sisarum; skirret

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sium sisarum" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("Sium sisarum" is a member of...):

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)

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