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ferulas

  • plural
    of ferula.
    ferula
    noun
    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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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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