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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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