Queen Anne's lace

Examples

• All

• Queen Anne's lace, despised by generations of farmers, is now considered a wildflower by the non-farm motoring public.

  Academic text (1991)

• Queen Anne's lace and honeysuckle, I tell my father, above me at my side; already preoccupied with our coming tasks, he smiles at my youthful enthusiasm but does not reply.

  Fiction book (1994)

• In summer, the Queen Anne's lace was as tall as some of the markers.

  Fiction book (1990)

• In her hand, she holds several long stalks of Queen Anne's lace, and she waves the flowers at Ann.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The field has not yet been mowed, and it is filled with tall grasses and Queen Anne's lace.

  Fiction book (1995)

• In front of them, at the far edge of the field filled with Queen Anne's lace, tall dark pines rise almost parallel to the side of the mountain.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Lindsay yearned for the fields full of butterflies and Queen Anne's lace in Schuylerville.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Cecile shrugs her thin shoulders and gives a little laugh at the same time that she starts to gently brush Ann's brow with the bunch of Queen Anne's lace.

  Fiction book (1995)

• They are (left to right): tulip, Queen Anne's lace, poppy, tulip, thistle, chrysanthemum, and banksia.

  Academic text (2006)

• The fields were adorned with beautiful clusters of Queen Anne's lace that swayed in the breeze.

Synonyms

W

wild carrot

vsQueen Anne's lace

1 4.8

A tall plant with thin leaves and small white flowers often found in meadows

is the same plant called by a different common name

D

Daucus carota

vsQueen Anne's lace

• Specialized

8.4

A wild plant like a carrot with lacy leaves, white flower clusters, and thin yellowish roots

is referred to by a common name rather than the scientific term

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology