tansy
noun
any of several composite plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially a strong-scented, weedy, Old World herb, T. vulgare, having flat-topped clusters of tubular yellow flowers.
tansies
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pluralof tansy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Like banners unfurled The skies dip and flourish— The keen breezes nourish, While the bright world Is a ribbon unrolled With a border of grasses; And tansies are masses And splotches of gold.
From Challenge by Louis Untermeyer
On every hillside, and in every valley, stood countless asters, coreopses, tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers, like Brahminical devotees, turning steadily with their luminary from morning till night.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Among Composites may be mentioned the tansies, Saussureas, and the fine Erigeron multiradiatus common in the forest above Narkanda.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie
"I have picked some field tansies," she went on, with some animation.
From The Rendezvous 1907 by Herman Bernstein
It is of these people Sir Kenelm Digby’s book reminds us, and even the names of his recipes are soothing reading—syllabubs, hydromel, mead, quidannies, tansies, slipp-coat-cheeses, manchets, and so forth.
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
