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fool's parsley

fool's parsley noun: aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.

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

Synonyms of fool's parsley

Questions about fool's parsley

What does fool's parsley mean?
Fool's parsley means aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.
What part of speech is fool's parsley?
Fool's parsley is a noun.

Words near fool's parsley in the dictionary

  1. fool's huckleberry
  2. fool's mate
  3. fool's mates
  4. fool's mushroom
  5. fool's paradise
  6. fool's parsley
  7. fool's rack
  8. fool's spring
  9. fool's watercress
  10. fool's-parsley
  11. fool-hardy

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