chervil

1. 1.

   aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads

   Synonymsbeaked parsleyAnthriscus cereifolium

   Broaderherb

   Part ofAnthriscus
2. 2.

   fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach

   Broaderherb

Other forms of chervil

plural

chervils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chervil

What does chervil mean?

chervil means "aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chervil?

chervil has 2 syllables: cher-vil. The stress falls on "cher".

What is another word for chervil?

Close synonyms include beaked parsley, Anthriscus cereifolium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chervil a common word?

chervil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.