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# parsnip

«parsnip» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, pale cream root vegetable, shaped like a carrot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a parsnip, parsnips)

### meaning for a pupil

A long, pale cream root vegetable, shaped like a carrot, with a sweet taste when cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking: roast parsnips with Sunday dinner or Christmas dinner (UK, Ireland). In science/gardening: a root vegetable grown underground; frost makes it sweeter. Old saying: «Fine words butter no parsnips» (talk alone does not get things done).

### examples

- We had roast parsnips with our chicken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x1)
- A parsnip looks like a white carrot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x2)
- Grandad grows parsnips in his allotment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x3)
- Parsnips taste sweeter after a frost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x4)
- Fine words butter no parsnips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x5)
- Mum made parsnip soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x6)
- The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/#x7)

### note

Countable. Spelling: pars-nip. Trap: the wild parsnip plant's sap can burn skin in the sun — don't pick wild plants.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parsnip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parsnip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.