golden alexanders


noun

a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.

Origin of golden alexanders

Middle English alisaundre (< Old French < ML), Old English alexandre < Medieval Latin ( petroselinum) Alexandrinum horse-parsley ( Smyrnium olusatrum), a synonym of petroselinum Macedonicum (apparently by association of Macedonia with Alexander the Great); cf. parsley