Definitions for ferula

ferula fer·u·la

Spelling: [fer-oo-luh, fer-yoo
IPA: /ˈfɛr ʊ lə, ˈfɛr yʊ-/

Ferula is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in ferula (aeflru).

Definitions for ferula

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 ferula

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

Examples for ferula

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for ferula
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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