a widely naturalized Eurasian umbelliferous plant, Aegopodium podagraria, with white flowers and creeping underground stems
Also called: bishop's weed, ground elder, herb Gerard
bishop's-weed in American English
(ˈbɪʃəpsˌwid)
noun
goutweed
Word origin
[1605–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classic, ideal, inverse, pivot, surface