Definition of Alexanders

1. Noun. European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb.

Exact synonyms: Alexander, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley, Smyrnium Olusatrum
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Smyrnium, Smyrnium

Definition of Alexanders

1. n. A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

Definition of Alexanders

1. Noun. Any of various umbellifers, often specifically ''Smyrnium olusatrum'' or ''Heracleum maximum'', the cow parsnip ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alexanders

1. alexander [n] - See also: alexander

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexanders

aleuronic
aleuronoid
aleurons
aleuroplast
aleuroplasts
aleutian mink disease
aleutian mink disease virus
alevin
alevins
alew
alewife
alewives
alews
alex
alexander disease
alexanders
alexandrine
alexandrines
alexandrite
alexandrites
alexia
alexias
alexic
alexical
alexin
alexin unit
alexine
alexines
alexins
alexipharmac

Literary usage of Alexanders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related. Ing Alexander, as they report, derived his Pedigree by the Father from Hercules, ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... Alexanders Pedigree. conditions. Therefore preparing their Boat and victualling ... Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations and Conquests briefly related ..."

3. Archiv F�ur Geschichte Der Philosophie (1895)
"Die Polemik Alexanders von Aphrodisia gegen die verschiedenen Theorien des Sehens. Von Job. ... Alexanders Polemik scheidet sich in mehrere Abtheilungen. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1811)
"Majestät Alexanders des Ersten, auf den Schiften Nadeshda und Newa, &c. A Voyage round the World in the ..."

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