cow parsley

English

cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)

Noun

cow parsley (uncountable)

1. Anthriscus sylvestris, a weedy biennial umbellifer native to the Old World.
   • 1954 April, A. R. G. Hawkins, “The Easingwold Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:

     For the trip over the grass-covered sleepers and between the cow-parsley and briars, an open wagon was added to the usual combination of locomotive and coach, for the benefit of those who wanted to take photographs.

2. (by extension) Any of a variety of plants of similar appearance.

Synonyms

• (Anthriscus sylvestris): wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, keck; Queen Anne's lace (UK)

Translations

a weedy biennial umbellifer

• Bats: ჭიმ (č̣im)
• Bulgarian: азмацук m (azmacuk), див керевиз (div kereviz)
• Chechen: чӏим (čʼim)
• Dutch: fluitenkruid (nl)
• Dutch Low Saxon: schierling, fluitekruud
• Estonian: mets-harakputk
• Finnish: koiranputki (fi)
• French: anthrisque sauvage (fr)
• Georgian: ჭყიმი (č̣q̇imi), ღრინჭოლა (ɣrinč̣ola)
• German: Wiesenkerbel m
• Icelandic: skógarkerfill (is)
• Ingush: чӏим (čʼim)
• Irish: peirsil bhó f
• Lithuanian: krūminis builis
• Norwegian Bokmål: hundekjeks
• Old English: wuducerfille f
• Polish: trybula leśna
• Portuguese: erva-cicutária (pt) f, cicutária f
• Romanian: hasmațuchi (ro) m
• Russian: купы́рь лесно́й m (kupýrʹ lesnój)
• Sami: dierpmárássi
• Spanish: esperifollo verde m
• Swedish: hundkäx (sv) n, hundloka (sv) c
• Turkish: yabani Frenk maydanozu
• Welsh: gorthyfail m
• West Frisian: piipkrûd

similar plant

• Finnish: putki (fi)

References

• cow parsley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anthriscus sylvestris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Anthriscus sylvestris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• cow parsley at USDA Plants database