fool's parsley

English

Noun

fool's parsley (uncountable)

1. Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous. [from 18th c.]
   • 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.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: etusa f, julivert bord m, julivert de muntanya m, julivertassa (ca) f
• French: petite ciguë (fr) f
• German: Hundspetersilie f
• Hungarian: mérges ádáz (hu)
• Polish: blekot m