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 Talk Talk - Communication terms
Category: General technical and industrial
Date & country: 28/05/2010, UK
Words: 18630


butterfly
Click images to enlargeInsect belonging, like moths, to the order Lepidoptera, in which the wings are covered with tiny scales, often brightly coloured. There are some 15,000 species of butterfly, many of which are under threat throughout the world because of the destruction of habitat. The largest family, Nymphalidae, ha...

bustard
Bird of the family Otididae, order Gruiformes, related to cranes but with a rounder body, thicker neck, and a relatively short beak. Bustards are found on the ground on open plains and fields. The great bustard Otis tarda is one of the heaviest flying birds at 18 kg/40 lb, and ...

bushmaster
Large snake Lachesis muta. It is a type of pit viper, and is related to the rattlesnakes. Up to 4 m/12 ft long, it is found in wooded areas of South and Central America, and is the largest venomous snake in the New World. When alarmed, it produces a noise by vibrating its tail among dry leaves

bushbuck
Antelope Tragelaphus scriptus found over most of Africa south of the Sahara. Up to 1 m/3 ft tall, the males have keeled horns twisted into spirals, and are brown to blackish. The females are generally hornless, lighter, and redder. All have white markings, including stripes or vertical rows of dots down the sides. Rarely far ...

burbot
Long, rounded fish Lota lota of the cod family, the only one living entirely in fresh water. Up to 1 m/3 ft long, it lives on the bottom of clear lakes and rivers, often in holes or under rocks, throughout Europe, Asia, and North America

bunting
Any of a number of sturdy, finchlike birds with short, thick bills, of the family Emberizidae, order Passeriformes, especially the genera Passerim and Emberiza. Most of these brightly coloured birds are native to the New World

bumblebee
Any large bee, 2–5 cm/1–2 in, usually dark-coloured but banded with yellow, orange, or white, belonging to the genus Bombus. Most species live in small colonies, usually underground, often in an old mousehole. The queen lays her eggs in a hollow nest of moss or grass at the beginning of the season. The larvae ar...

bullfinch
Eurasian finch with a thick head and neck, and short heavy bill, genus Pyrrhula pyrrhula, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes. It is small and blue-grey or black in colour, the males being reddish and the females brown on the breast. Bullfinches are 15 cm/6 in long, an...

bull terrier
Breed of dog, originating as a cross between a terrier and a bulldog. Very powerfully built, it grows to about 40 cm/16 in tall, and has a short, usually white, coat, narrow eyes, and distinctive egg-shaped head. It was formerly used in bull-baiting. Pit bull terriers are used in illegal dog fights. The Staffordshire bull terrier is a d...

bug
(insect) In entomology, an insect belonging to the order Hemiptera. All these have two pairs of wings with forewings partly thickened. They also have piercing mouthparts adapted for sucking the juices of plants or animals, the `beak` being tucked under the body when not in use. They ...

buffalo
(Asiatic and African) Click images to enlargeEither of two species of wild cattle. The Asiatic water buffalo Bubalis bubalis is found domesticated throughout South Asia and wild in parts of India and Nepal. It likes moist condition...

budgerigar
Small Australian parakeet Melopsittacus undulatus of the parrot family, Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, that feeds mainly on grass seeds. In the wild, it has a bright green body and a blue tail with yellow flares; yellow, white, blue, and mauve varieties have been bred for the pet market. Budgerigars breed freely in captiv...

bulbul
Fruit-eating bird of the family Pycnonotidae, order Passeriformes, that ranges in size from that of a sparrow to a blackbird. They are mostly rather dull coloured and very secretive, living in dense forests. They are widely distributed throughout Africa and Asia; there are about 120 species

bur
In botany, a type of `false fruit` or pseudocarp, surrounded by numerous hooks; for instance, that of burdock Arctium, where the hooks are formed from bracts surrounding the flowerhead. Burs catch in the feathers or fur of passing animals, and thus may be dispersed ov...

bulbil
Small bulb that develops above ground from a bud. Bulbils may be formed on the stem from axillary buds, as in members of the saxifrage family, or in the place of flowers, as seen in many species of onion Allium. They drop off the parent plant and develop into new individuals, providing a means of vegetative reproduction and dispe...

bud
Undeveloped shoot usually enclosed by protective scales; inside is a very short stem and numerous undeveloped leaves, or flower parts, or both. Terminal buds are found at the tips of shoots, while axillary buds develop in the axils of the leaves, often remaining dormant unless the terminal bud is removed or damaged. Adventitious buds may be pro...

bureaucracy
Organization whose structure and operations are governed to a high degree by written rules and a hierarchy of offices; in its broadest sense, all forms of administration, and in its narrowest, rule by officials. The early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India were organized hierarchically, thus forming the bureaucratic tradition...

bug
(computing) In computing, an error in a program. It can be an error in the logical structure of a program or a syntax error, such as a spelling mistake. Some bugs cause a program to fail immediately; others remain dormant, causing problems only when a particular combination of events occur...

Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich
Soviet politician and theorist. A moderate, he was the chief Bolshevik thinker after Lenin. Executed on Stalin's orders for treason in 1938, he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1988. He wrote the main defence of war communism in his Economics of the Transition Period (1920). He drafted the Soviet constitution of 1936, but in...

Bukhara
City in south-central Uzbekistan, on the Zerevshan River 220 km/137 mi east of Samarkand; population (1999) 237,900. A historic city with over 140 protected buildings, it was once the heart of Muslim Central Asia, and second only to Mecca as an Islamic holy site. It is the capital of the Bukhara province of Uzbekistan, which has given i...

building society
In the UK, a financial institution that attracts investment in order to lend money, repayable at interest, for the purchase or building of a house on security of a mortgage. The largest building societies in the UK in 1996, in order, were the Halifax, Nationwide, Woolwich, Alliance and Leicester, Bradford and Bingley, Britannia, Bristol and West, a...

bugle
(instrument) Compact valveless treble brass instrument with a shorter tube and less flared bell than the trumpet. Constructed of copper plated with brass, it has long been used as a military instrument for giving a range of signals based on the tones of a harmonic series. The bugle has a conic...

Buenos Aires
Industrial city, chief port, and capital of Argentina, situated in the `Capital Federal` – a separate federal district, on the south bank of the Río de la Plata, at its estuary; population (2001 est) 13,756,000. Industries include motor vehicles, engineering, oil, chemicals, t...

Buddhism
Click images to enlargeOne of the great world religions, which originated in India in the 5th century BC. It derives from the teaching of the Buddha, who is regarded as one of a series of such enlightened beings. The chief doctrine is that all phenomena share three characteristics: they are impermanent, unsatisfactory...

Budapest
Capital of Hungary, industrial city (chemicals, textiles) on the River Danube; population (2001) 1,777,900. Buda, on the right bank of the Danube, became the Hungarian capital in 1867 and was joined with Pest, on the left bank, in 1872. History The site of a Roman outpost in the 1st century, Buda...

Buckinghamshire
County of southeast central England. Area 1,565 sq km/604 sq mi Towns Aylesbury (administrative headquarters), Beaconsfield, Buckingham, High Wycombe, Olney Physical Chiltern Hills; Vale of Aylesbury Features Chequers (country seat of the prime minister); Burnham Beeches (ancient woods)&#...

Buckingham Palace
Click images to enlargeLondon home of the British sovereign, it stands at the west end of St James's Park. The original Buckingham House, begun in 1703 for the 1st Duke of Buckingham, was sold to George III in 1761. George IV obtained a parliamentary grant for its repair and enlargement, but instead he and the archite...

Bucharest
Capital and largest city of Romania; population (2002) 1,926,300. The conurbation of Bucharest district has an area of 1,520 sq km/587 sq mi. It was originally a citadel built by Vlad the Impaler (see Dracula) to stop the advance of the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century. Bucharest became the capital of the princes of Wallachia in 1698 an...

Bulge, Battle of the
In World War II, Hitler's plan (code-named `Watch on the Rhine`) for a breakthrough by his field marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, aimed at the US line in the Ardennes from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945. Hitler aimed to isolate the Allied forces north of the corridor which would be created by a drive through the Ardennes, creating...

Bulawayo
Industrial city and railway junction in Zimbabwe; population of urban area (1992 est) 620,900. The country's second-largest city after Harare, it lies at an altitude of 1,355 m/4,450 ft on the Matsheumlope River, a tributary of the Zambezi. Industries include cement, clothing, tyres, brewing, printing, and agricultural and electrica...

Buck, Pearl S(ydenstricker)
US novelist. Daughter of missionaries to China, she spent much of her life there and wrote novels about Chinese life, such as East Wind–West Wind (1930) and The Good Earth (1931), for which she received a Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938

Buchan, John
Scottish writer and politician. His popular adventure stories, today sometimes criticized for their alleged snobbery, sexism, and anti-Semitism, include The Thirty-Nine Steps, a tale of espionage published in 1915, Greenmantle (1916), and The Three Hostages (1924). He was Conservative...

buccaneer
Member of any of various groups of seafarers who plundered Spanish ships and colonies on the Spanish American coast in the 17th century. Unlike true pirates, they were acting on (sometimes spurious) commission. mainly British, some were French, Dutch, and Portuguese. Among the best known was Henry Morgan. The ranks of the buccaneers were divided by...

burdock
Any of several bushy herbs characterized by hairy leaves and ripe fruit enclosed in burs with strong hooks. (Genus Arctium, family Compositae.)

burnet
Herb belonging to the rose family, also known as salad burnet. It smells of cucumber and can be used in salads. The name is also used for other members of the genus. (Sanguisorba minor, family Rosaceae.)

buttercup
Any plant of the buttercup family with divided leaves and yellow flowers. (Genus Ranunculus, family Ranunculaceae.)

butterwort
Insectivorous plant belonging to the bladderwort family, with purplish flowers and a rosette of flat leaves covered with a sticky substance that traps insects. (Genus Pinguicula, family Lentibulariaceae.)

bubble chamber
In physics, a device for observing the nature and movement of atomic particles, and their interaction with radiation. It is a vessel filled with a superheated liquid through which ionizing particles move. The paths of these particles are shown by strings of bubbles, which can be photographed and studied. By using a pressurized liquid medium instead...

buoyancy
Lifting effect of a fluid on a body wholly or partly immersed in it. This was studied by Archimedes in the 3rd century BC

buoy
Floating object used to mark channels for shipping or warn of hazards to navigation. Buoys come in different shapes, such as a pole (spar buoy), cylinder (car buoy), and cone (nun buoy). Light buoys carry a small tower surmounted by a flashing lantern, and bell buoys house a bell, which rings as the buoy moves up and down with the waves. Mooring bu...

bulldog
British breed of dog of ancient but uncertain origin, formerly bred for bull-baiting. The head is broad and square, with deeply wrinkled cheeks, small folded ears, very short muzzle, and massive jaws, the peculiar set of the lower jaw making it difficult for the dog to release its grip. Thickset in build, the bulldog grows to about 45 cm/18...

Burgess, Anthony
English novelist, critic, and composer. A prolific and versatile writer, Burgess wrote about 60 books as well as screenplays, television scripts, and reviews. His work includes A Clockwork Orange (1962) (made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971), a despairing depiction of high technology and violence set in a future London ter...

bugloss
Any of several plants native to Europe and Asia, distinguished by their rough, bristly leaves and small blue flowers. (Genera Anchusa, Lycopsis, and Echium, family Boraginaceae.)

bushel
Dry or liquid measure equal to eight gallons or four pecks (36.37 l/2,219.36 cu in) in the UK; some US states have different standards according to the goods measured

burlesque
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a form of satirical comedy parodying a particular play or dramatic genre. For example, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) is a burlesque of 18th-century opera, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic (1777) satirizes the sentimentality in contemporary drama. ...

Bush, George Herbert Walker
41st president of the USA 1989–93, a Republican. He was vice-president 1981–89 and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1976–81. The Bush presidency marked a turning point in world affairs, as the collapse of the USSR ended the Cold War and heralded a `new world Order` dominated by the USA as the only globa...

Bulgaria
Country in southeast Europe, bounded north by Romania, west by Serbia and Macedonia, south by Greece, southeast by Turkey, and east by the Black Sea. Government Under the 1991 constitution, Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic. There is a single-chamber legislature, the 240-member national assembly (Narodno Sabranie), directly elected every...

Burkina Faso
Landlocked country in west Africa, bounded east by Niger, northwest and west by Mali, and south by Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Government The 1991 constitution provides for a 111-member national assembly, Assemblée des Députés Populaires (ADP), elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term, and a pres...

Burundi
Country in east central Africa, bounded north by Rwanda, west by the Democratic Republic of Congo, southwest by Lake Tanganyika, and southeast and east by Tanzania. Government Burundi has a transitional multiparty political system, with a presidential executive. The president is elected by universal suffrage for a maximum of two five-year terms...

bullfighting
Click images to enlargeThe national sport of Spain (where there are more than 400 bullrings), which is also popular in Mexico, Portugal, and much of Latin America. It involves the ritualized taunting of a bull in a circular ring, until its eventual death at the hands of the matador (bullfighter). Originally popular in Gre...

buyer's market
Market having an excess of goods and services on offer and where prices are likely to be declining. The buyer benefits from the wide choice and competition available

bull
(finance) In business, a financial trader who believes the market is going to rise. Such positive sentiments are said to be bullish. A bull is the opposite of a bear. In a bull market, prices rise and bulls prosper

burgh
(archaic) Archaic form of borough

Burma
Former name (to 1989) of Myanmar

buffer
(computing) In computing, a part of the memory used to store data temporarily while it is waiting to be used. For example, a program might store data in a printer buffer until the printer is ready to print it

burette
In chemistry, a piece of apparatus, used in titration, for the controlled delivery of measured variable quantities of a liquid. It consists of a long, narrow, calibrated glass tube, with a tap at the bottom, leading to a narrow-bore exit

Burgess Shale Site
Site of fossil-bearing rock formations created over 500 million years ago by a mud slide, in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. The shales in this corner of the Rocky Mountains contain more than 120 species of marine invertebrate fossils. One of the world's most important fossil sites, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site sin...

bubonic plague
Epidemic disease of the Middle Ages; see plague and Black Death

button
Fastener for clothing, originating with Bronze Age fasteners. In medieval Europe buttons were replaced by pins but were reintroduced in the 13th century as a decorative trim and in the 16th century as a functional fastener. In the 15th and 16th centuries, gold- and silver-plated handmade buttons were popular with the nobility. Enamel button...

Bulgarian
An ethnic group living mainly in Bulgaria. There are 8–8.5 million speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language belonging to the Indo-European family. The Bulgarians use the Cyrillic alphabet. Known in Eastern Europe since the 6th century AD, the Bulgarians were unified under Kurt or Kubrat in the 7th century. In 864 Boris I adopted the Easter...

buttress
In architecture, a vertical mass of masonry that acts as a support or brace, projecting from the outer face of a wall at intervals. Its presence helps to resist the outward thrust of a vault, roof-truss, or girder. Buttresses were seldom used in classical architecture, and in Romanesque architect...

Burman
The largest ethnic group in Myanmar (formerly Burma). The Burmans, speakers of a Sino-Tibetan language, migrated from the hills of Tibet, settling in the areas around Mandalay by the 11th century. From the Mons, a neighbouring people, the Burmans acquired Hinayana Buddhism and a written script based on Indian syllables. The Burmans are mainly s...

Bunsen burner
Gas burner used in laboratories, consisting of a vertical metal tube through which a fine jet of fuel gas is directed. Air is drawn in through airholes near the base of the tube and the mixture is ignited and burns at the tube's upper opening. The invention of the burner is attributed to German c...

bus
(computing) In computing, the electrical pathway through which a computer processor communicates with some of its parts and/or peripherals. Physically, a bus is a set of parallel tracks that can carry digital signals; it may t...

burglary
Offence committed when a trespasser enters premises with the intention to steal, do damage to property, grievously harm any person, or rape a woman. Entry does not need to be forced, so, for example, a person who puts his hand through a broken shop window to steal something may be guilty of burglary. In English and Welsh courts, burglary is conside...

bulgur wheat
Cracked whole wheat, made by cooking the grains, then drying and cracking them. It is widely eaten in the Middle East. Coarse bulgur may be cooked in the same way as rice; more finely ground bulgur is mixed with minced meat to make a paste that may be eaten as a dip with salad, or shaped and stuffed before being grilled or fried

buckminsterfullerene
Form of carbon, made up of molecules (buckyballs) consisting of 60 carbon atoms arranged in 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons to form a perfect sphere. It was named after the US architect and engineer Richard Buckminster Fuller because of its structural similarity to the geodesic dome that he designed. See fullerene

buckyballs
Popular name for molecules of buckminsterfullerene

Burgundy
(ancient) Ancient kingdom in the valleys of the rivers Rhône and Saône in eastern France and southwestern Germany, partly corresponding with modern-day Burgundy. Settled by the Teutonic Burgundi around AD 443, and brought under Frankish control in AD 534, Burgundy played a centra...

bushman's rabbit
A wild rodent Bunolagus monticularis found in dense riverine bush in South Africa. It lives in small populations, and individuals are only seen very occasionally; it is now at extreme risk of extinction owing to loss of habitat to agriculture. Very little is known about its life or habits

Burnell, Jocelyn Bell
Northern Irish astronomer. See Bell Burnell

bushbaby
Small nocturnal African prosimian with long feet, long, bushy tail, and large ears. Bushbabies are active tree dwellers and feed on fruit, insects, eggs, and small birds. Classification Bushbabies are members of the loris family Lorisidae, order Primates

Bush, George W(alker), Jr
43rd president of the USA from 2001. Republican governor of Texas 1994–2000 and son of former US president George Bush, he was elected president after defeating Democrat Al Gore in a hotly disputed contest and with a smaller share (48.1%) of the popular vote than his Democrat rival (48.3%). The presidency was conceded to Bush 36 days a...

buffalo
(North American) Common name of the North American bison, a large brown hoofed mammal of the bovine (cattle) family, with a heavy mane and sloping hindquarters. Buffalo roamed the Great Plains of the USA in herds of millions until the...

bullet
Non-alphanumeric character, such as a star, dot, or arrow. Sometimes called `dingbats`, bullets are used to draw attention to a number of points in an article or report

burnish
In ceramics, the process of smoothing and polishing. A burnisher, a tool with a smooth, rounded stone or metal surface, is used to achieve the required degree of finish

bust
Sculptured representation of the head, shoulders, and breast of a person. The traditional bust form appeared in Etruscan art of the 5th century BC, having originated in the herms of ancient Greece, square pillars carved with the head and genitals of the god Hermes. Realistic portrait sculpture developed in Roman art from about 75 BC, although stric...

Buddhist art
Click images to enlargeArt and design of the Buddhist world, since the foundation of Buddhism, a philosophy that seeks enlightenment, by the Buddha Sakyamuni in the 5th century BC. The earliest Buddhist art developed in India to accommodate the new religion, including pillars and stupa, domed reliquary ...

Buddhist laity
Unordained members of the Buddhist religion. Lay Buddhists are bound by the same rules of conduct as ordained Buddhists, except that they follow the Five Moral Precepts instead of the Ten Moral Precepts. They worship daily at a shrine, either at home or in a temple, by making a puja (act of worship) and with meditation. Lay Buddhists are expected t...

Buddhism, schools of
The two main forms of Buddhism are Theravada (or Hinayana) in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and India; and Mahayana in North and East Asia. Mahayana Buddhism has a number of branches, including Tibetan Buddhism, or Lamaism, Zen Buddhism in Japan, and Pure Land Buddhism, the dominant form in China and Japan; there are over a hundred schools of ...

Buddha rupa
Picture or statue of the Buddha, from whom the teachings of Buddhism have evolved, or one of the subsequent Buddhas. Buddhas take many forms; their appearance, mudras (hand gestures), and different poses – seated, standing, or reclining – relate to their area of origin and have different symbolic meanings. Theravada Buddhists do not w...

Buddhist teaching
The canon of the Buddha's teachings or dharma, established at group councils of thousands of Buddhist monks. The first council was held within months of the Buddha's death in 483 BC. The teachings were passed down by recitation for about 400 years; monks would answer a series of questions with the appropriate portion of the canon. The T...

buttonhole
Fastener for clothing, used with a button. There are two main types of buttonhole. In one type, a slit in fabric is prevented from fraying by either stitching or binding. In the other type, a loop is made, through which the button will fasten

Buddhist ethics
Questions of right and wrong considered according to Buddhism. Buddhist beliefs are governed by the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the Five Moral Precepts (or Eight or Ten Moral Precepts). In making difficult moral decisions, there are no hard and fast rules to be applied. It is up to individuals to maintain a clear, broad understanding...

Byzantium
Ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, founded as a colony of the Greek city of Megara on an important strategic site at the entrance to the Black Sea about 660 BC. In AD 330 the capital of the Roman Empire was transferred there by Constantine the Great, who renamed it Constantinople and it became the capital of the Byzantine Empire to which it gave i...

Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire 395–1453, with its capital at Constantinople (formerly Byzantium, modern Istanbul). It was the direct continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, and inherited many of its traditions and institutions

Byzantine
Style in the visual arts and architecture that originated in the 4th–5th centuries in Byzantium (capital of the Eastern Roman Empire; renamed Constantinople in 330; now Istanbul). It spread to Italy, throughout the Balkans, and to Russia, where it survived for many centuries. The term By...

Byrd, William
(composer) English composer. His sacred and secular choral music, including over 200 motets and Masses for three, four, and five voices, is typical of the English polyphonic style

Byrds, the
US pioneering folk-rock group 1964–73. Emulated for their 12-string guitar sound, as on the hits `Mr Tambourine Man` (a 1965 version of Bob Dylan's song), `Turn, Turn, Turn` (1965), and `Eight Miles High` (1966), they moved toward country rock in the late 1960s, setting another trend

Byblos
Ancient Phoenician city (modern Jebeil), 32 km/20 mi north of Beirut, Lebanon. Known to the Assyrians and Babylonians as Gubla, it had a thriving export of cedar and pinewood to Egypt as early as 1500 BC. In Roman times it boasted an amphitheatre, baths, and a temple, and was known for its celebration of the resurrection of Adonis, worshipped a...

Byrd, Richard Evelyn
US aviator and explorer. The first to fly over the North Pole (1926), he also flew over the South Pole (1929) and led five overland expeditions in Antarctica

Byatt, A(ntonia) S(usan)
English novelist and critic. Her fifth novel, Possession (1990, filmed 2002) won the Booker Prize. The Virgin in the Garden (1978) is a confident, zestfully handled account of a varied group of characters putting on a school play during the coronation year of 1953. Part of a sequence, it was followed by
byte
Sufficient computer memory to store a single character of data, such as a letter of the alphabet. The character is stored in the byte of memory as a pattern of bits (binary digits), using a code such as ASCII. A byte usually contains eight bits – for example, the capital letter F can be stored as the bit pattern 01000110. A single byte can spe...

Byelorussia
Alternative name for Belarus

by-election
See electoral system: UK

castor-oil plant
Tall tropical and subtropical shrub belonging to the spurge family. The seeds, called `castor beans ` in North America, yield the purgative castor oil (which cleans out the bowels) and also ricin, one of the most powerful poisons known. Ricin can be used to destroy cancer cells, leaving normal cells untouched. (Ricinus communis<...

cashew
Click images to enlargeTropical American tree. Widely cultivated in India and Africa, it produces poisonous kidney-shaped nuts that become edible after being roasted. (Anacardium occidentale, family Anacardiaceae.)

cassava
Plant belonging to the spurge family. Native to South America, it is now widely grown throughout the tropics for its starch-containing roots, from which tapioca and bread are made. (Manihot utilissima, family Euphorbiaceae.) Cassava is grown as a staple crop in rural Africa, Asia, and South America. Altogether, it provides a ...

catalpa
Any of a group of trees belonging to the trumpet creeper family, found in North America, China, and the West Indies. The northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) of North America grows to 20 m/65 ft and has heart-shaped deciduous leaves and tubular white flowers with purple bord...

carrot
Hardy European biennial plant with feathery leaves and an orange tapering root that is eaten as a vegetable. It has been cultivated since the 16th century. The root has a high sugar content and also contains carotene, which is converted into vitamin A by the human liver. (Daucus carota, family Umbelliferae.)