Skip to content

alexanders

al·ex·an·ders

Today it means: Any of various umbellifers, often specifically Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip. Full definition →

French alisander

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

alexanders · noun¹

French · borrowed fromalisander
English todayalexanders

From French alisander, apparently named for Alexander the Great, for one or more species thought to be endemic to Macedonia.

alexanders · noun²

See alexander, Alexander.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.