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parsley-piert (iou)



parsley-piert noun. L16.
[App. popular alt. of French perce-pierre lit. 'pierce-stone' (cf. breakstone s.v. BREAK-), infl. by PARSLEY See also PERCEPIER.]
Either of two dwarf plants of the rose family, Aphanes arvensis and A. inexspectata, of dry or stony ground, cornfields, etc., with fan-shaped trifid leaves and minute green axillary flowers. Formerly also (by confusion), the knawel, Scleranthus annuus.