Skirret

Sium sisarum. “A species of water parsnip, generally said to be of Chinese origin, long cultivated in Europe for its esculent root. It is a plant a foot high with pinnate leaves, a hardy perennial, but grown as an annual. The root is composed of small fleshy tubers, of the size of the little finger, united at the crown.” —Whitney, 1889

Keywords

flower, root, leaves, tuber, plant, parsnip, Perennial, Annual, fleshy, exculent root, sium sisarum, skirret

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Vegetables, Flowers and Shrubs: S, Stems and Roots

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5676

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