Sunday Telegraph General Knowledge (GK) 943 Sunday December 12th 2010

[ladyalex]

10a Eurasian herb akin to the parsnip (4) ?I?L

Can the answer be DILL ? I cannot see the relationship to parsnip.......

[Mamyalynne]

Yes it is Milady

[baitress]

both parsnip and dill belong to the
parsley family

[ladyalex]

Thanks, Mamyalynne :-))

[Lie-in King]

10a Dill - Chambers has "...annual Eurasian herb related to parsnip..."

Hope you're keeping well, m'lady? :-))

[ladyalex]

Thanks to you too, Baitress..didn't look closely enough into 'dill'
(Not too keen on it anyway)

[ladyalex]

Hi, your Maj. Keeping well, thanks .
Snow has almost all gone now, though we were reduced to turning out cupboards whilst marooned a week ago!
Hope you are well too.

[boxtops]

Cor, I could do with turning out some cupboards, I am just putting up the Christmas tree and finding all sorts of dross.....

[Lie-in King]

Thank you, m'lady, I'm well.

We've had no snow for more than a week now, but it's still jolly cold...

[ladyalex]

We made quite a few discoveries too...the best was a couple of bottles of wine that we had misplaced.
Loads and loads of dross too, though.....which we couldn't get rid of as the bin men couldn't get round and we couldn't get the car out.
All gone now, though.

[08012006]

The Apiaceae or Umbelliferae (both names are allowed by the ICBN) is a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems, commonly known as umbellifers. It includes angelica, anise, arracacha, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celery, centella asiatica, chervil, cicely, coriander/cilantro, cumin, dill, fennel, hemlock, lovage, Queen Anne's Lace, parsley, parsnip, sea holly, the now extinct silphium, and other relatives

[boxtops]

I've have related the others because of their seed heads, but I don't think I've ever seen a parsnip go to seed - interesting!