ferula
Americannoun
plural
ferulas, ferulae-
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.
noun
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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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Etymology
Origin of ferula
1350–1400; Middle English < New Latin, Latin; see ferule 1
Example Sentences
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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
Conditi Paradoxi compositio: mellis partes. xv. in æneum uas mittuntur in præmissis inde sextariis duobus ut in cocturam mellis uinum decoques. quod igni lento: & aridis lignis calefactum comotum ferula dum coquitur.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers
Perhaps the ferula had been applied to him at Constantinople in old days.
From Roman and the Teuton by Kingsley, Charles
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
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 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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