garden chervil en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.
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.”
2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51:
Coordinates
rough chervil · golden chervil