tansy
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum…A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
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(obsolete, uncountable)A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
- common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English tansy, tansey, syncopic forms of earlier tanesie, tanesei, fInherited from Middle English tansy, tansey, syncopic forms of earlier tanesie, tanesei, from Old French tanesie, tanoisie, tanasie, tanaisie, from Medieval Latin tanacetum, atanacetum, attested since the 8th century, of obscure origin, speculated from Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”) owing to hallucinations from the thujone in the plant, else from taenia (“tapeworm”) due to its primary use against parasites by which reason it is called in Arabic حَشِيشَة الدُود (ḥašīša ad-dūd, literally “worm herb”), otherwise a Berber borrowing like tagetes.
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Forms
plural: tansiesSynonyms
3 synonyms- common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally:golden buttonsscented fernTanacetum vulgare
Word family
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