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

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Example Sentences

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

Six years later, the site seethes with life, barely visible trails cutting through rampant sedge and mallow, cow parsley and burdock.

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

Watching a reality TV show in which antiques-pricing contestants cruise through the countryside in vintage cars, Elisabeth notices cow parsley growing by the side of the road.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2017

Blackavar was squatting a little way off, under an overhanging plume of cow parsley.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams