Queen Anne's lace

American  

noun

1. a plant, Daucus carota, the wild form of the cultivated carrot, having broad umbels of white flowers.

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Queen Anne's lace British  

noun

1. another name for cow parsley

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Etymology

Origin of Queen Anne's lace

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Bit by bit, she filled planting boxes and dug up lawn to transform her yard into what the tour describes as a tangle of sweet-smelling flowers — mounds of sweet peas, dangling wisteria, David Austin roses and scented geraniums along with dahlias, poppies, foxgloves, larkspur, blue bachelor buttons and Queen Anne’s lace.

From Los Angeles Times

Everyone in her group was laden with two or three cone-shaped bundles — a couple dozen each of ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses in ivory and white.

From Los Angeles Times

Marriott was quoted a price of $250 each for six arrangements from a florist; instead, she spent $550 on several dozen white ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses.

From Los Angeles Times

Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace.

From Scientific American

Hockney’s “Queen Anne’s Lace Near Kilham” has a price estimate of $8 million-$12 million and Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “Femme de Venise III” $15 million-$20 million.

From Reuters