Tansy Definition

tănzē
tansies
noun
Any of a genus (Tanacetum) of plants of the composite family; esp., a poisonous weed (T. vulgare) with strong-smelling foliage and flat-topped clusters of small, yellow, rayless flower heads.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • golden buttons
  • Tanacetum vulgare
  • scented fern

Other Word Forms of Tansy

Noun

Singular:
tansy
Plural:
tansies

Origin of Tansy

  • From Old French tanesie, tanoisie et al., aphetic form of athanasie, from Medieval Latin athanasia, from Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasia, “immortality").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French tanesie from Vulgar Latin tanacēta from Late Latin tanacētum wormwood

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tansy Sentence Examples

  • Tansies originally always included tansy, a bitter-sweet herb which still lends its name to many custard and omelette-type puddings.

  • Living in a village forty miles west of Dublin, Tansy 's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand.

  • Blue flag, snake root, ginseng, lobelia, tansy, wormwood, wintergreen, pleurisy root, plantain, burdock, sarsaparilla and horehound are among its medicinal plants.

  • Ashes particularly rich in potash are those of burning nettles, wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), fumitory (Fumaria officinalis), and tobacco.

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