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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

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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

For dinner he ate wild carrots, carefully scraped with his knife.

From Literature

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

There were deer, and wild carrots, and bitterroot.

From Seattle Times

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

From Reuters