fool's parsley
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Noun
[edit]- Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: fool's cicely, poison parsley
- 1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 101:
- 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.
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