garden chervil

English

Noun

garden chervil (uncountable)

1. The umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.

   Synonym: French parsley

   • 2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51:

     Pliny the Elder commented in the first century A.D. that “chervil was a fine herb to comfort the cold stomach of the aged,” and Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”

Coordinate terms

• golden chervil (Chaerophyllum aureum)
• rough chervil (Chaerophyllum temulum)

Translations

Anthriscus cerefolium — see also chervil

• Finnish: maustekirveli (fi)
• French: cerfeuil (fr) m
• German: Kerbel (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: χαιρέφυλλον n (khairéphullon)

• Occitan: baula f, carfuèlh m, cerfuèlh m