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

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 • Nov. 20, 2024

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2023

An earlier, more fanciful outdoor piece, Mr. Schultz’s petal table, was inspired by Queen Anne’s lace, with its flower-like top sprouting from an elegant pedestal base.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2021

The field where Melville grew pumpkins and corn for his horse and cow is a meadow, wild with violets, irises, daisies, clover, bee balm, Queen Anne’s lace, vetch, and chickweed.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

That dog must of wet every black-eyed Susan and every head of white Queen Anne’s lace we passed.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns