Definition of "alexanders" [alexanders•al•ex•an•ders]

• Any of various umbellifers, often specifically Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip (noun)

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• "Later, I would make the Napoleon House around four for a game of chess or to play the old beatup upright piano in the very back room--by then drinking brandy alexanders--and New Orleans bars made the best brandy alexanders in the history of the drunkard's world in those days."
• "I made brandy alexanders 1 part brandy, 1 part creme de cacao, 1 part Haagen-Daz vanilla ice cream, 1 maraschino cherry, splash of maraschino cherry juice."
• "Such, to take a single case, is the history of the common alexanders, now a familiar weed around villages and farmyards, but only introduced into England as a pot-herb about the eighth or ninth century."