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wild carrot

British  

noun

  1. an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The white was ox-eye daisies, bladder campion and wild carrot, with spires of bright blue from viper's bugloss.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

My dear friend Juliet took care of the bouquet — a tangle of California natives including blooming poppies, little white starbursts of wild carrot and eucalyptus sprigs that filled the air with their herbal scent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2021

The Swiss company’s Agolin Ruminant feed additive contains extracts from coriander seed oil, clove and wild carrot.

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2020

They break through the sunflowers toward the cottage, stepping through Aaron’s rod, wild carrot, all the leaves browned from frost.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

I was searching the ground for the lacy flowers of the wild carrot when I caught a shift in the shadows ahead of me, a flash of motion among the tree trunks.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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