queen anne's lace

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   a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots

   Synonymswild carrotDaucus carota

   Broaderwildflower

   Part ofDaucus

Questions about queen anne's lace

What does queen anne's lace mean?

queen anne's lace means "a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots".

What is another word for queen anne's lace?

Close synonyms include wild carrot, Daucus carota. 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 queen anne's lace a common word?

queen anne's lace 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.