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ferulae

ferulae is the plural of ferula.

Meaning of ferula

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

  1. (obsolete) A ferule.
    • He humbles with a ferula the tall ones1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please...
  2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
    • And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulæ you are to get.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 46
  3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Questions about ferulae

What is ferulae the plural of?
Ferulae is the plural of ferula.

Words near ferulae in the dictionary

  1. fertotoxic
  2. fertotoxicity
  3. ferucarbotran
  4. ferula
  5. ferulaceous
  6. ferulae
  7. ferular
  8. ferulars
  9. ferulary
  10. ferulas
  11. ferulate

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