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garden chervil

garden chervil noun: the umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.

Noun

garden chervil (uncountable)

  1. The umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.
    • Pliny the Elder commented in the first century A.D. that “chervil was a fine herb to comfort the cold stomach of the aged,” and Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone...2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51
    Synonyms:
    French parsley

Synonyms of garden chervil

Questions about garden chervil

What does garden chervil mean?
Garden chervil means the umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.
What part of speech is garden chervil?
Garden chervil is a noun.

Words near garden chervil in the dictionary

  1. garden centers
  2. garden centipede
  3. garden centipedes
  4. garden centre
  5. garden centres
  6. garden chervil
  7. garden cities
  8. garden city
  9. garden close
  10. Garden County
  11. garden cress

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