poison parsley

Questions about poison parsley

What does poison parsley mean?

poison parsley means "large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous".

What is another word for poison parsley?

Close synonyms include hemlock, poison hemlock, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern. 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 poison parsley a common word?

poison 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.