What's the difference between parsnip and vegetable?

Parsnip


Definition:

  • (n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roots of celery (Apium graveolens) and parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) were inoculated with Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
  • (2) The steroid 5 a-androst-16-en-3-one, known as a boar pheromone, was identified in parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) and celery (Apium graveolens).
  • (3) My brother is also involved and we grow January King, red, white, Savoy and green cabbages, plus sprouts, potatoes, parsnips and some cereals.
  • (4) Bar snacks such as crackling and parsnip crisps are available all day in the pub still used by locals.
  • (5) Lewis began his campaign last Christmas, slashing the price of the “festive five” – bags of vegetables including carrots, potatoes, Brussels sprouts and parsnips – to 49p.
  • (6) As well as those daily-changing one pots, such as chilli, Thai curry, a chicken chowder and parsnip soup, all served with rice or breads, Grub also serves reputedly good deli sandwiches and salads.
  • (7) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
  • (8) Along the top of it were half a dozen metal spikes and stuck on these, in the manner of martyrs' heads outside a city gate, were a series of impossibly slender, raw baby vegetables: a carrot, a parsnip, a beetroot.
  • (9) The plain truth is that there weren't that many about: frozen peas, carrots, parsnips in season, and potatoes, that was about the limit of it.
  • (10) I picked up a can of chopped tomatoes, a bag of carrots, parsnips, potatoes and onions for £1, a can of kidney beans, a bag of rice, a bag of pasta, and some dried herbs, vegetable stock cubes and dark chocolate to make things a bit more interesting.
  • (11) Dunnes began offering 500g of Brussels sprouts, parsnips or clementines at just 6c (5p), while Lidl countered with a price of just 5c (4p) for a bag of potatoes, onions and carrots.
  • (12) Shoppers could and do argue that their waste is spurred by supermarket offers; farmers could and do argue that their waste is caused by factors outside their control, such as: "I cannot eat this parsnip because it looks like the gnarly hand of a wizard."
  • (13) It tells you things like how to jazz up a glut of parsnips (tarragon is one of Segnit's inspired suggestions that I hadn't come across before), and reminds you why a classic pairing such as chilli and chocolate works so well.
  • (14) 150ml white-wine vinegar Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tbsp caster sugar 3 medium carrots, peeled and shaved into very thin, long, wide strips 1 large parsnip, peeled and shaved into very thin, long, wide strips 120g radish, shaved into very thin slices 1 small red onion, peeled and cut into very thin slices 1 small beetroot, shaved into very thin slices 20g parsley leaves, roughly chopped 2½ tbsp olive oil 2 tsp lemon juice 80g stilton, broken into 1-2cm pieces Put the vinegar and 500ml water in a bowl with one and a half teaspoons of salt and the sugar, and stir to dissolve.
  • (15) Peel the parsnips and carrots and cut into quarters lengthways.
  • (16) Five individuals developed striate bullous dermatitis two days after exposure on a clear day to Heracleum mantegazzianum, Umbelliferae (Parsnip) family.
  • (17) The present method to detect parsnip or turnip adulteration in prepared horseradish uses light microscopy and a starch stain containing iodine in potassium iodide.
  • (18) Cicuta douglasii is found in all of our western states, is extremely toxic and can easily be confused with wild parsnip or carrot.
  • (19) All three had been to Swansea grammar school, but Fred was by then studying at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where Thomas joined him in 1934, to share, as the young poet recalled, "one big barmy room kept by a Mrs Parsnip", with the artist William Scott and another talented painter from Swansea grammar, Mervyn Levy.
  • (20) We report two adults who ingested hemlock water dropwort roots, having mistaken them for wild parsnip.

Vegetable


Definition:

  • (v.) Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
  • (v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
  • (v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
  • (v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
  • (n.) A plant. See Plant.
  • (n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
  • (5) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
  • (6) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
  • (7) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
  • (8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
  • (9) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
  • (10) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (11) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
  • (12) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (13) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
  • (14) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
  • (15) This site is present in both vegetative cells and postaggregation cells.
  • (16) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
  • (17) In the third part, the practical application of this knowledge to processed foods is shown using milk and vegetable protein as examples.
  • (18) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
  • (19) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (20) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.

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