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Parsley   /pˈɑrsli/   Listen
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Parsley  n.  (Bot.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. "As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit."
Fool's parsley. See under Fool.
Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley.
Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling parsley (Cryptogramme crispa).
Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb (Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.






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"Parsley" Quotes from Famous Books



... boy ran and brought parsley and cabbage leaves for the Rabbit; and when the Rabbit saw that, he trotted home in a hurry, for fear he might be tempted to eat before ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various

... and takes the salt And the pepper in portions true (Which he never forgot), and some chopped shalot. And some sage and parsley too. ...
— Fifty Bab Ballads • William S. Gilbert

... about his feelings, it was so much easier to go to Joan with them. But this evening Joan did not quite satisfy him. He drank his tea and ate plentifully of his favourite pie, of fresh fish and cream and young parsley, and ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... fat gas-works, the narrow factories draw near, we are in the sordid streets of the great town, once more we sidle to a standstill at our terminus, abashed by the great crimson and cream-coloured city cars, but still perky, jaunty, somewhat dare-devil, green as a jaunty sprig of parsley out ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence

... if they had them. Italian I prefer. Good glass of burgundy take away that. Lubricate. A nice salad, cool as a cucumber, Tom Kernan can dress. Puts gusto into it. Pure olive oil. Milly served me that cutlet with a sprig of parsley. Take one Spanish onion. God made food, the devil the ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


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