lovage

IPA: ɫˈʌvʌdʒ

A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery.
A liquor made from this herb.
Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum)

Examples of "lovage" in Sentences

“She drank this awful stuff—lovage, which is some sort of herbal diuretic, because she had trouble with … you know… water retention.”
The delegates dined on baked Scottish salmon, Welsh lamb, and something called lovage (see the full menu here), all prepared by Naked Chef Jamie Oliver.
And it even applies to the other ingredient in the anti-alcoholism six-pack cocktail; buy "lovage root" and you'll very probably get the usual kind of lovage,
Other herbs and plants there are which retain the names of the countries from whence they were transported, as the Median apples from Media, where they first grew; Punic apples from Punicia, that is to say, Carthage; Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from
Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from Liguria, the coast of Genoa; Rhubarb from a flood in Barbary, as Ammianus attesteth, called Ru; Santonica from a region of that name; Fenugreek from Greece; Gastanes from a country so called; Persicaria from Persia; Sabine from a territory of that appellation; Staechas from the Staechad Islands; Spica Celtica from the land of the Celtic Gauls, and so throughout a great many other, which were tedious to enumerate.