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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Perhaps the ferula had been applied to him at Constantinople in old days.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
More especially the delicate and Cottrellian grace with which you officiated, with a ferula for a white wand, as gentleman usher to the word "also," which it seems did not know its place.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Let ferula and rod together Lie dormant, till the frosty weather.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson
The public pedagogue does not go out every morning before breakfast and, with ferula for Archimedean lever and Three R's for fulcrum, prize open the gates of day.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
Page 52, line 32. ammoniacum.—Ammoniacum, or Gutta Ammoniaca, is described by Dioscorides as being the juice of a ferula grown in Africa, resembling galbanum, and used for incense.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
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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