herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds
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stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers
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Lovage \Lov"age\, n. [F. liv[`e]che, fr. L. levisticum, ligusticum, a plant indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, Liguria a country of Cisalpine Gaul.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant ({Levisticum officinale}), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.
This spring, some four years since tansy lay claim to our garden, there was still evidence that lovage and mint had once grown here, but all else was tansy.