SKIRRET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skirret mean? 

• SKIRRET (noun)
  The noun SKIRRET has 1 sense:

1. an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

  Familiarity information: SKIRRET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIRRET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Sium sisarum; skirret

Hypernyms ("skirret" 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 ("skirret" is a member of...):

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)