parsley

n. plant used as cooking herb or garnish

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a bright green, biennial herb, also used as spice. It is very common in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. Parsley is used for its leaf in much the same way as coriander (which is also known as Chinese parsley or cilantro), although it has a milder flavor. Two forms of parsley are used as herbs: curly leaf and Italian, or flat leaf (P. neapolitanum). Curly leaf parsley is often used as a garnish. Many people think flat leaf parsley has a stronger flavor, and this opinion is backed by chemical analysis which finds much higher levels of essential oil in the flat-leaved cultivars. One of the compounds of the essential oil is apiol.
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Noun
1. annual or perennial herb with aromatic finely-cut leaves
(synonym) Petroselinum crispum
(hypernym) herb, herbaceous plant
(hyponym) Italian parsley, flat-leaf parsley, Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum
(member-holonym) Petroselinum, genus Petroselinum
2. aromatic herb with flat or curly leaves
(hypernym) herb

(n.)
An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
  

A Pascal extension for construction of parse trees, by Barber of Summit Software. It features Iterators.
["PARSLEY: A New Compiler-Compiler", in Software Development Tools, Techniques and Alternatives, Arlington VA, Jul 1983, pp.232-241].
(1995-02-22)