WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
pars′ley fam′ily,
- Plant Biologythe plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
'parsley family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
alexanders
- angelica
- anise
- asafetida
- caraway
- carpophore
- carrot
- celeriac
- celery
- chervil
- cicely
- coriander
- cowbane
- cow parsnip
- cumin
- dill
- fennel
- ferula
- feverweed
- giant hogweed
- golden alexanders
- goutweed
- hemlock
- honewort
- kex
- lovage
- masterwort
- meadow parsnip
- parsley
- umbelliferous
- vitta
- water hemlock
- samphire
- sanicle
- skirret
- spotted cowbane
- stylopodium
- sweet cicely