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SIUM SISARUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root
Synonyms:
Sium sisarum; skirret
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sium sisarum" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Holonyms ("Sium sisarum" is a member of...):
genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)
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