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