Queen Anne's lace

noun

1. a plant, Daucus carota, the wild form of the cultivated carrot, having broad umbels of white flowers.

Queen Anne's lace

noun

1. another name for cow parsley

Word History and Origins

Origin of Queen Anne's lace¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace.

From Scientific American

Hockney’s “Queen Anne’s Lace Near Kilham” has a price estimate of $8 million-$12 million and Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “Femme de Venise III” $15 million-$20 million.

From Reuters

Farms and fields and haunted Victorians, broken silos and dead motels, their doors banged open amidst a pale tide of Queen Anne's lace and purple lupine and the ghost yellow false bloom of wild parsnip, which stings before it burns.

From Salon

She found those old diaries recently in a box in her grandparents’ house, and the experience inspired “Revenant,” a heartfelt, acoustic-guitar-driven song on the new album that finds her extending a mature grace to her younger self: “Suddenly I saw you there, runny-eyed in a wooden chair/Ran outside to hide your face in the wild Queen Anne’s lace,” she sings.

From New York Times

Adorned with dried Queen Anne’s lace, red clover flowers, bolted callaloo, dried onion flowers, fresh thyme and a fresh cabbage rose on top, the cake that baker Aimee France made for a recent wedding at the Loeb Boathouse in Central Park looked as if it could have been decorated with flora she found while transporting it to the location.

From New York Times