parsley family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.

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Example Sentences

In California, our biggest celery-producing state, where this member of the parsley family grows year-round, chef and restaurateur Daniel Patterson has dipped into local culinary history to add spark to the stalks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Flowers of many of the Parsley Family, for example wild carrot, wild parsnip and caraway, are quite odd.

From Project Gutenberg

The caterpillar feeds upon the leaves of various members of the parsley family and is said to have learned to warm itself during the middle of the day by resting upon stones and gravel which have absorbed the sun's heat rays.

From Project Gutenberg

It is an aromatic garden herb, of an order of plants of the cohort umbelliferae, known popularly as the parsley family.

From Project Gutenberg

It's the dried fruit or seed of a plant in the parsley family.

From Project Gutenberg