Definitions for ferulas

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ferulas fer·u·la

Spelling: [fer-oo-luh, fer-yoo

IPA: /ˈfɛr ʊ lə, ˈfɛr yʊ-/

Ferulas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in ferulas (aeflrsu).

Definitions for ferulas

noun

1. 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.
2. ferule1 (def 1).

Origin of ferulas

1350-1400; Middle English New Latin, Latin; see ferule¹

Examples for ferulas

With a bounding heart, he tossed away his ferula, and hastened to the scene, where joys for evermore seemed calling on him.

This substance is described in the London Pharmacopia as a gum resin, the production of an uncertain species of ferula.

In this place we are called upon to consider, whether it be more agreeable to have Latin or the ferula at our fingers ends.

Perhaps the ferula had been applied to him at Constantinople in old days.

Ferrule” must be distinguished from “ferule” or “ferula,” properly the Latin name of the “giant fennel.

An inferior sort is the product of certain species of ferula.

Of Umbelliferae there exists in the low country one ferula, a small tree of unknown properties.

There also are found in abundance the great umbelliferous plants—ferula glauca, ferula candelabra, and the ferula asafœtida.

The old gentleman jumped up, ferula in hand, and darted across the school, and saw himself upon the fatal slate.