golden alexanders

golden alexanders
a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.
[ME alisaundre ( < OF < ML), OE alexandre < ML (petroselinum) Alexandrinum horse-parsley (Smyrnium olusatrum), a synonym of petroselinum Macedonicum (appar. by assoc. of Macedonia with ALEXANDER THE GREAT); cf. PARSLEY]

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