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

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Queen Anne's lace

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 ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023

Roadside weeds like wild mustard and Queen Anne’s lace, tendrils of palm inflorescence and carnivorous cobra lilies have all found a place in her work.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2020

Her face, turned downward, is lightly overlaid with blossoms of Queen Anne’s lace, the afternoon sunlight dappling her back and hair in a pacific, Vermeerian composition.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2018

This time the ornaments were nature’s brilliant red-and-yellow necklaces of bittersweet, pungent pinecones, wine-red clusters of sumac berries, abandoned bird-bodied boats of milkweed, delicate thumb-size goblets of Queen Anne’s lace.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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