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noun

Tansy n.

(Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.

A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. (Obs.)

Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual.

Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.

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Etymology of 'Tansy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tansy" Quotes from Famous Books

... (swarming millions black-birds, of them indescribably dragon-flies, strange and beautiful at night pond-turtles, over the pond and creek,) mulleins, tansy, peppermint, water-snakes, moths, (great and little, some crows, splendid fellows,) millers, mosquitoes, cedars, butterflies, tulip-trees, (and all other trees,) wasps and hornets, and to the spots and memories cat-birds, (and ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

Words linked to "Tansy" : tansy-smelling, tansy ragwort, camphor dune tansy, goose-tansy, genus Tanacetum, golden buttons, northern dune tansy, tansy-leaved rocket, Tanacetum vulgare, Tanacetum, tansy-scented, composite plant