fool's-parsley

American  

[foolz-pahrs-lee] / ˈfulzˌpɑrs li /

noun

1. an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.

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fool's-parsley British  

noun

1. an evil-smelling Eurasian umbelliferous plant, Aethusa cynapium , with small white flowers: contains the poison coniine

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Etymology

Origin of fool's-parsley

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

A jar of buttercups and fool's-parsley in the window-bottom kept her away in the meadows, where in the lush grass the moon-daisies were half-submerged, and a spray of pink ragged robin.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Summer had burnt up this abandoned pasturage, and while they sat in silence Guy rattled from the rank umbels of fool's-parsley and hemlock the innumerable seeds that would only profit the rankness of another year.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton