What does "skirret" mean?

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

Skirret

Common synonyms include: edible root, historic crop, medieval vegetable, root vegetable, sium sisarum, sugar carrot.

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Noun

1
An umbelliferous plant (Sium sisarum), cultivated for its sweet edible tuberous roots. countable, uncountable
"Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential."
2
an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root wordnet
3
A straight-line marking tool consisting of a line of thread wrapped around a holder. countable, uncountable

"Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential."

From Dutch suikerwortel (literally “sugar-root”).