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golden Alexanders

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A North American perennial herb (Zizia aurea) in the parsley family, having compound umbels of small yellow flowers and ternately compound leaves.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English alisaundre, probably from Medieval Latin (petroselīnum) Alexandrīnum, horse-parsley, after Alexander III.]

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