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- noun a genus of plants of the parsley family having aromatic seeds and finely divided leaves, including the dill
Anethum graveolens .
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- noun dill
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Examples
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The Gloss "in the Roman language is anethum [anise], and is tithed, whether it be gathered green or ripe."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Dill in his _Second Eclogue _as the _bene olens anethum_, "a pleasant and fragrant plant."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The exact equivalent of the plant anethon is dill (anethum graveolens), while anise corresponds to the pimpinella anisum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Among the roots we obtained here, I could distinguish only five or six different kinds; and the supply of the Indians whom we met consisted principally of yampah, (_anethum graveolens_,) tobacoo-root,
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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On the bottoms of the streams he also digs up the "kamas" root (_camassia esculenta_), the "yampah," (_anethum graveolens_), the "kooyah"
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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'Vae vobis Scribae et Pharisaei hypocritae, qui decimatis mentham, et anethum, et cyminum, et reliquistis quae graviora sunt legis,
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy.
Rational Review 2009
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_yampah_, (_anethum graveolens_,) which I found our Snake woman engaged in digging in the low timbered bottom of the creek.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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