ferula
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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How to use ferula in a sentence
Of Umbelliferae there exists in the low country one ferula, a small tree of unknown properties.
The Highlands of Ethiopia | William Cornwallis HarrisAn inferior sort is the product of certain species of ferula.
The old gentleman jumped up, ferula in hand, and darted across the school, and saw himself upon the fatal slate.
Westward Ho! | Charles KingsleyThere also are found in abundance the great umbelliferous plants—ferula glauca, ferula candelabra, and the ferula asafœtida.
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) | Isabella L. BirdWith a bounding heart, he tossed away his ferula, and hastened to the scene, where joys for evermore seemed calling on him.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller | Thomas Carlyle
British Dictionary definitions for ferula
/ (ˈfɛrʊlə, ˈfɛrjʊ-) /
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
a rare word for ferule 1
Origin of ferula
1Derived forms of ferula
- ferulaceous (ˌfɛruːˈleɪʃəs, ˌfɛrjuː-), adjective
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