“fool's”

The following 9 entries include the term fool's.

fool's errand

noun

: a needless or profitless endeavor

fool's gold

noun

: pyrite

fool's paradise

noun

: a state of delusory happiness

fool's parsley

noun

: a poisonous European weed (Aethusa cynapium) of the carrot family that resembles parsley and is naturalized in the northern U.S. and southern Canada

fool's-coat

noun

fool's cress

noun

fool's huckleberry

noun

: a straggling shrub (Menziesia ferruginea) of northwestern North America with glandular hirsute petioles and pedicels

fool's-stones

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

: any of several European orchids of the genus Orchis

fool's watercress

noun

: a European perennial herb (Apium nodiflorum) with simple pinnate leaves and umbels of greenish white flowers


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