ferula
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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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"You have no idea how I miss you," he said, taking my fan and drawing his thumb over it, as if he were feeling the edge of his ferula.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
He took up his dark, formidable ferula, and leaned his forehead thoughtfully upon it.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
Let ferula and rod together Lie dormant, till the frosty weather.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan
"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 Hentz, Caroline Lee
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 Gilbert, William
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