horse parsley
- noun
- UK
:
perejil de caballo
- She added freshly chopped horse parsley to the soup for extra flavor.
Examples
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Gardeners appreciate horse parsley for its culinary uses and decorative foliage.
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The coastline is dotted with wild horse parsley growing among the grasses.
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I love adding horse parsley to my salads.
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Do you know where to find horse parsley?
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Gardeners appreciate horse parsley for its culinary uses and decorative foliage.
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She added freshly chopped horse parsley to the soup for extra flavor.
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I love adding horse parsley to my salads.
Synonyms
A leafy herb like celery used as a vegetable and to add flavor
A European herb with leaves like celery eaten as a vegetable
A herb like celery that grows along British coasts and is used in cooking
An edible herb people use to flavor salads and cooked food
Surface Forms
Morphology
horse + parsley
The compound signals a type of herb because 'parsley' names the plant and 'horse' functions as a modifier, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely infer it refers to a kind of parsley/plant. However, the precise botanical sense and the reason for the modifier 'horse' (size, roughness, or historical naming) are not predictable from the parts alone, so full comprehension requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Horse parsley may get its name from farms and fields: the word horse shows it was often eaten by or found near animals, and parsley shows it looks like the garden herb. So the name helps you remember it's a wild, parsley-like plant rather than the fine parsley used in cooking.
