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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TAWIS, TAWES, s. a whip; a lash; the ferula used by a schoolmaster.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
The Schoolmaster, with the ferula in his hand, surrounded by his scholars.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
Perhaps the ferula had been applied to him at Constantinople in old days.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
Squill, scilla maritima, garlic, leek, onion, allium, asafœtida, ferula asafœtida, gum ammoniac, benzoin, tar, pix liquida, balsam of Tolu.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Let ferula and rod together Lie dormant, till the frosty weather.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson
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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