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fool's-parsley

fool's-parsley is the alternative form of fool's parsley.

Meaning of fool's parsley

Noun

fool's parsley (uncountable)

  1. Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.
    • The sun shone brightly on little showers of buttercup down the bank, in the fields the fools-parsley was foamy, held very high and proud above a number of flowers that flitted in the greenish twilight of the mowing-grass below.1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 101

Questions about fool's-parsley

What is fool's-parsley the alternative form of?
Fool's-parsley is the alternative form of fool's parsley.

Words near fool's-parsley in the dictionary

  1. fool's paradise
  2. fool's parsley
  3. fool's rack
  4. fool's spring
  5. fool's watercress
  6. fool's-parsley
  7. fool-hardy
  8. fool-hearted
  9. fool-heartedly
  10. fool-heartedness
  11. fool-saint

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