Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rod; a ferule.
- noun A leading-staff, baton of command or authority, scepter, or the like, especially the scepter of some ancient and Eastern dominions, as that of the Byzantine empire, Hungary, etc.
- noun In botany, an umbelliferous genus of about 60 species, chiefly of the Mediterranean region and central Asia, and very nearly allied to Peucedanum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A ferule.
- noun The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Apiaceae — many aromatic plants, includingasafetida .
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Examples
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There are over 1,100 spp of vascular plants, 75 of them are endemic to this ecoregion (such as Cousinia badghysi, Ferula badrakema, Tulipa kuschkensis). 650 species of vascular plants are found within the protected territory of the Badghyz Reserve.
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Ferula grabbed each of them by the lock of wet hair at their napes and helped to pull them out with the experience she had acquired watching the birth of colts and calves at Yres Marias.
page 123 meme Anxious Black Woman 2008
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The tall umbellates - Prangos pubularia, Ferula tenuisecta appear higher in loess foothills.
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In the middle mountain belts, characteristic grasslands are dominated by Prangos pabularia, Ferula spp.,
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There are many other Sudanese species such as Maerua, Ferula, Salvadora and Calotropis.
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Other group of plants that dominates in the high mountains (2,200-2,700 m) are umbellifers belonging to Ferula, Prangos and other genera.
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Ferula asafoetida, or in Hindi, hing, is a resinous spice that is used often in Indian bean cookery.
Tigers & Strawberries » Bean Cuisine II: Saag Masoor Dal 2005
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Ferula asafoetida, F. alliacea, F. foetida, and F. narthex look something like giant carrot plants, growing to 5 feet/1.5 m and developing massive carrot-like roots 6 in/15 cm in diameter, from which new sprouts arise every spring.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Ferula asafoetida, F. alliacea, F. foetida, and F. narthex look something like giant carrot plants, growing to 5 feet/1.5 m and developing massive carrot-like roots 6 in/15 cm in diameter, from which new sprouts arise every spring.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Nor less curious, also, was it to remark how, upon this Arabian Alp, vegetation became more important; increasing, contrary to the general rule, not only in quantity but in size, and changing from the date and the Daum to the strong smelling Ferula, the homely hawthorn, and the tall and balmy juniper-tree.
The Land of Midian 2003
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