Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cow-chervil .
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Examples
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You gaze out of the open door at a wake of bubbling cow-parsley and the green depths of a hedge in May.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It was a perfect starlit night, nearly a new moon, and the chalky track, lined with cow-parsley, shone luminously in the darkness.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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You gaze out of the open door at a wake of bubbling cow-parsley and the green depths of a hedge in May.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It was a perfect starlit night, nearly a new moon, and the chalky track, lined with cow-parsley, shone luminously in the darkness.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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They send them up a small cow-parsley plant to get some extra lift and take off from the dizzy top.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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They send them up a small cow-parsley plant to get some extra lift and take off from the dizzy top.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Mess of nettles, cow-parsley, could take a scythe to them.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Mess of nettles, cow-parsley, could take a scythe to them.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Once they sought coolness and secrecy among the high cow-parsley and willow-herb of the waste building sites.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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'Speaking of which,' Lieutenant Harry Price had drawn his sword as they left the town behind and now slashed with the blade at the cow-parsley that grew thick in the lane, 'are you going to give us some leave, sir?'
Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986
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