skirret

IPA: skˈɝʌt

An umbelliferous plant (Sium sisarum), cultivated for its sweet edible tuberous roots.

Examples of "skirret" in Sentences

Skirrets may be boiled, stewed, or roasted.
It was made of barley; certain herbs, such as lupine and skirret, were used as substitutes for hops.
Garnish it with orange peel boil'd in strong broth, and some French beans boil'd, and put in thick butter, or some skirret, cardones, artichocks, slic't lemon, mace, or orange.
On the other hand, there was a kind of parsnip called skirret that did die out entirely because people stopped cultivating it, and a type of small onion, and a certain breed of English peas—
Vegetables count cole, collard, kale, all ` cabbage 'and preserved in kailyard ` cabbage garden,' symbolic of Scotland's literature since 1895 as in "the kailyard school"; rutabaga ` turnip, 'literally, ` root-bag'; and skirret ` parsnip, 'literally, ` sheer-white.'