Meanings
- uncountableAethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.First known use 18th c.
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.
1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 101Synonyms: fool's cicely, poison parsley
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.
More synonyms by meaning
nounEuropean weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan etusa, julivert bord
- etusaTranslations
- julivert bordTranslations
- julivert de muntanyaTranslations
- julivertassaTranslations
French petite ciguë
- petite ciguëTranslations
German Hundspetersilie
- HundspetersilieTranslations
Hungarian mérges ádáz
- mérges ádázTranslations
Polish blekot
- blekotTranslations
Welsh geuberllys
- geuberllysTranslations
Cite this entry
fool's parsley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fool's%20parsley
“fool's parsley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fool's%20parsley. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fool's parsley,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fool's%20parsley.
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