chinese parsley

Questions about chinese parsley

What does chinese parsley mean?

chinese parsley means "Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chinese parsley?

Close synonyms include coriander, coriander plant, cilantro, Coriandrum sativum, coriander. 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 chinese parsley a common word?

chinese parsley 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.