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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With a bounding heart, he tossed away his ferula, and hastened to the scene, where joys for evermore seemed calling on him.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas
"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
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 Holcroft, Thomas
—Enough, enough!—A severe, punctual, painstaking Voltaire, sitting with the schoolmaster's bonnet on head; ferula visible, if not actually in hand.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Brann, William Cowper
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 Joyce, James
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 Jusserand, Jean Jules
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