Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common European umbelliferous plant, Caucalis Anthriscus (Torilis Anthriscus); also, any species of Caucalis except C. daucoides, which is called
bur-parsley and hedgehog-parsley. They are unattractive weeds.
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Examples
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Besides these, note the broad hedge-parsley leaves, tunnelled by leaf-miners; bright masses of haws gleaming in the sun; scarlet hips; great brown cones fallen from the spruce firs; black heart-shaped bindweed leaves here, and buff bryony leaves yonder; green and scarlet berries of white bryony hanging thickly on bines from which the leaves have withered; and bunches of grass, half yellow and half green, along the mound.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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It is bordered on either side by thick hawthorn hedges, and these again are further rendered more impassable by the rankest growth of hemlocks, 'gicks,' nettles, hedge-parsley, and similar coarse plants.
The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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The wood was enclosed with a thick hawthorn hedge that looked impassable; but the keeper's footsteps, treading down the hedge-parsley and brushing aside the 'gicks,' guided me behind a bush where was a very convenient gap.
The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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