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parsley (iou) and DRG (medicine)


parsley (iou)



parsley noun. ['p¨»:sli]
[Old English petersilie, corresp. to Middle Dutch petersilie (mod. -selie), Old High German petersilia (German Petersilie), and Old French peresil (mod. persil), from Proto-Romance var. of Latin petroselinum from Greek petroselinon, from petra rock + selinon parsley.]
An umbelliferous plant, Petroselinum crispum, much grown for its finely divided, usu. curled, aromatic leaves, which are used to flavour or garnish dishes; the leaves of this plant. Also, any Other plant of the genus Petroselinum. OE.
With specifying words: any of various umbelliferous plants related to parsley or resembling it in their finely divided leaves. E16.
cow parsley, fool's parsley, hedge parsley, milk parsley, stone parsley, etc.
Comb.: parsley-bed a bed of parsley, esp. as a supposed place where babies are born (cf. GOOSEBERRY-bush); parsley breakstone = PARSLEY-PIERT; parsley caterpillar the larva of the anise swallowtail butterfly, Papilio zelicaon, which is a pest of umbelliferous plants in western N. America; parsley fern a fern of mountain screes, Cryptogramma crispa, with finely divided fronds like parsley leaves; parsley frog a western European spade-foot toad, Pelodytes punctatus, with green spots on its back; parsley-leaved elder a cultivated variety of elder with laciniate leaves, Sambucus nigra 'laciniata'; parsley sauce a white sauce flavoured with parsley; parsleyworm the larva of the black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes asterius, which is a pest of umbelliferous plants in eastern N. America.
parsleyed adjective (of Food) cooked or served with parsley E20.

DRG (medicine)


DRG
<abbreviation> Diagnosis-related group.