parsnips

Meaning of parsnips

plural noun
  1. a long tapering cream-coloured root vegetable with a sweet flavour.
    roasted parsnips
    a puree of celeriac and parsnip
    parsnip wine
  2. the Eurasian plant of the parsley family which yields parsnips.

late Middle English: from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca (related to pastinare ‘dig and trench the ground’). The change in the ending was due to association with neep.

Information about parsnips

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of parsnips is: parsnip.
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Hyphenation of parsnips

parsnips

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • parsnips is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with parsnips

Nips, nips, genips, pogonips, Burnips, turnips, snips, tinsnips, catnips, Cynips, cynips

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