NOUN
- fresh ferny leaves and green seeds used as garnish in salads and cold vegetables; dried seeds used in confectionery and liqueurs
- European herb with soft ferny leaves and white flowers
- aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
How To Use sweet cicely In A Sentence
- These include sweet cicely, beebalm, yarrow, purple coneflowers and others.
- Plant mitsuba with other herbs of similar culture such as sweet cicely, chervil, bee balm, lamium, lungwort, violets, and woodland strawberries.
- Spoon into a pretty bowl and decorate with small springs and flowers of sweet cicely.
- One of the first herbs to appear in the spring, sweet cicely makes a becoming backdrop to a perennial border.
- Add a vanilla pod, a sprig of sweet cicely, lavender or elderflower cordial to rhubarb compote.
- At an even lower level each margin of my lane was bedecked with the thickening growths of sweet cicely, already emitting its attractive, aniseed aroma. Country Diary: North Derbyshire
- Sweet cicely likes half shade and a moist, rich soil.
- Gardening programmes make much of cow-parsley, yet sweet cicely is not only a prettier plant but also has a longer growing season and is edible!
- The root of sweet cicely can be boiled and eaten.
- Plant mitsuba with other herbs of similar culture such as sweet cicely, chervil, bee balm, lamium, lungwort, violets, and woodland strawberries.
