ferula
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ferulas,
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ferulae
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Botany. any of various plants belonging to the genus Ferula, of the parsley family, chiefly of the Mediterranean region and central Asia, generally tall and coarse with dissected leaves, many of the Asian species yielding strongly scented, medicinal gum resins.
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any large umbelliferous plant of the Mediterranean genus Ferula , having thick stems and dissected leaves: cultivated as the source of several strongly scented gum resins, such as galbanum
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a rare word for ferule 1
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Origin of ferula
1350–1400; Middle English < New Latin, Latin; see ferule 1
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"Read,"—cried the master, waving his ferula with a commanding gesture,—"our time is precious."
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
If life was laborious under his ferula, it was also merry.
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall
His ferula may be an Aaron's rod which buds and blossoms; but it does not bear sufficient fruit to furnish a hungry world with necessary aliment.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
TAWIS, TAWES, s. a whip; a lash; the ferula used by a schoolmaster.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
And I am obliged to answer yes, and no, and I thank you kindly, while my finger's ends are smoking, tingling, and aching under the stroke of the ferula!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
And old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulae you are to get.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Books are the masters that instruct us without rods or ferulas, without reprimands or anger, without the solemnity of the gown or the expense of lessons.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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