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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous European weed (Aethusa cynapium) in the parsley family, having finely divided leaves, umbels of small white flowers, and an unpleasant odor.
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Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum.
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