Cost·ma·ry n. Bot. A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.
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Chrysanthemum balsamita
n : tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow
flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for
potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus
Chrysanthemum [syn: costmary, alecost, bible leaf,
mint geranium, balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita]