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Originally posted by Dancehall Queen
Erm, I don't mean to be a bitch but wouldn't some thing like "Parsnips and carrots both belong to the same family the whatever it is, or carrot family" make more sense with hence? I mean doesn't hence mean as a result? As a result of them having a resembles they have a resemblance? Sorry Anglaise isn't my first language so I don't follow that well. 
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Hence can mean "as a result", but it can also mean "from this source", like, say, "They grew up in the Sudan; hence their interest in Nubian art." (Thanks, Free Dictionary!) It can also mean "because of a preceding fact or premise". (Thanks, Merriam-Webster!

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I'm not sure if that helped at all, so let me also add that I was simply pointing out why a parsnip seemed like a "neanderthal's carrot" in my own somewhat grammatically silly way.
