fool's parsley

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fool's parsley

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uncountable Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous. The sun shone brightly on little showers of buttercup down the bank, in the fields the fools-parsley was foamy, held very high and proud above a number of flowers that flitted in the greenish twilight of the mowing-grass below.
Similar: fool's cicely, poison parsley

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Français	petite ciguë
Deutsch	Hundspetersilie

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@misc{fool_s_parsley_2026,
  title = {fool's parsley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fool's%20parsley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}