lovage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds
    Levisticum officinale.
  2. noun stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers

WordNet

Lov"age noun
Etymology
F. livèche, fr. L. levisticum, ligusticum, a plant indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, Liguria a country of Cisalpine Gaul.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

Webster 1913