Definition of Pastinaca

1. Noun. A rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastinaca

Pasteur effect
Pasteur pipette
Pasteur pipettes
Pasteur vaccine
Pasteurella anatipestifer
Pasteurella novicida
Pasteurella pestis
Pasteurella pfaffii
Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis
Pasteurella septicaemiae
Pasteurella tularensis
Pasteurian
Pasteurism
Pastia
Pastia's sign
Pastinaca
Pastinaca sativa
Pasto
Pastor roseus
Pastor sturnus
Patagonia
Patagonian
Patagonian Desert
Patagonian tinamou
Patagonian tinamous
Patagonian weasel
Patagonians
Patavine
Patavium

Literary usage of Pastinaca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"THE garden parsnip, pastinaca sativa, is thought to be a native plant, and to have been procured by cultivation from the wild parsnip, pastinaca sylvestris ..."

2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"In reality, the pastinaca or Sting-ray is not venomous; but the wounds inflicted by the sting in its tail are highly dangerous, from their tendency to ..."

3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"The former, an addition to the island list, was found in two places on pastinaca sativa; the latter occurred on its usual foodplant, in Lorden Copse, ..."

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