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ˈwater-ˌparsnip
Name for the aquatic umbelliferous plants of the genus Sium, esp. S. latifolium; also applied to Helosciadium nodiflorum (sometimes classed as Sium nodiflorum).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xvii. 199 Great water Parsnepe..is described to haue leaues of a pleasant sauour. Ibid. 200 [figure] Sium maius, Great water Parsnep. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 432 Sium,..Water-parsnep. 1770Ann. Reg. 118/1 Three children of a poor cottager in Ireland having eaten of the herb Daho or Water-parsnep, two of them died. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. xvii. (1794) 229 The Creeping Water Parsnep, Sium nodiflorum Lin. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 234 The siums, or water-parsnips, are..not uncommon. |