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Wild carrot   /waɪld kˈærət/   Listen
Wild carrot

noun
1.
A widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots.  Synonyms: Daucus carota, Queen Anne's lace.






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"Wild carrot" Quotes from Famous Books



... here that had not been mown for a long time, and in the autumn the wild carrots took possession of it, almost to the exclusion of grass and other plants. The flower of the wild carrot gathers together as the seeds mature, and forms a framework cup at the top of the stalk, like a bird's-nest. These 'bird's-nests,' brown and weather-beaten, endured far into the winter. The brook-sparrows still sang as I passed by again in the evening; they seem the most unwearied of birds, ...
— Round About a Great Estate • Richard Jefferies



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