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单词 ferula
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ferulan.

Brit. /ˈfɛr(j)ᵿlə/, U.S. /ˈfɛr(j)ələ/
Etymology: < Latin ferula giant fennel, a rod.
1. Botany. A genus of plants; the giant fennel.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > giant fennel
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > fennel
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Indian fennel1796
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fennel-flower1863
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lxxi. 960 Ferula is an herbe.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 1v The nature of Ferula is the sorest enemie that can be to Lampreys.
1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 465 Vossius..affirms them to be Arborescent Ferula's.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 171 This species of ferula is a native of..Persia.
1868 Mrs. H. L. Evans Last Winter in Algeria 25 The beautiful feathery leaf of the ferula.
2. From the use of the fennel-stalk in Roman times: A cane, rod, or other instrument of punishment, esp. a flat piece of wood (see ferule n. 2); figurative school discipline.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > cane or switch
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bamboo rattan1796
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > ferule or flat piece of wood
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society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > school-teaching > school discipline
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 792 Many..doe put forth their handes to be striken..with the ferula.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xix. 215 I have laboured and striuen by Ferula, and all meanes of seuerity.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 123 We..had Ferula's made to punish Swearing.
1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 316 They had never known the infliction of chastisement from either cane or ferula.
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. iv. 40 His ever-changing course..which was passed so nomadically, under ferulas of various colour.
3. Surgery. A long splint.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 444.
1884 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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