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cow parsley

British  

noun

  1. Also called: keck.   Queen Anne's lace.  a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019

Main Avenue, home to the major show gardens, was awash with broad-leaved trees among a calming palette of green, pale yellow and white flowers, including swathes of cow parsley, euphorbias and meadowsweet.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2019

Vin+Omi's collection uses fabrics made from nettles and cow parsley which they cultivate near their studio in the Cotswolds.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2018

He found an ash stick and began to beat the heads off the tall plants of cow parsley.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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