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wild carrot

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Queen Anne's lace

–noun
a plant, Daucus carota, the wild form of the cultivated carrot, having broad umbels of white flowers.
Also called wild carrot.


Origin:
1890–95
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Queen Anne's lace  
n.  A widely naturalized Eurasian herb (Daucus carota var. carota) having white, nonfleshy, fusiform compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers. Also called wild carrot.
wild carrot  
n.  See Queen Anne's lace.
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