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"en:Anthemideae tribe plants",
"en:Foods",
"en:Herbs"
],
"derived": [
{
"taxonomic": "Tanacetum camphoratum",
"word": "camphor dune tansy"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Tanacetum vulgare",
"word": "common tansy"
},
{
"word": "double tansy"
},
{
"alt": "syn. Potentilla anserina",
"taxonomic": "Argentina anserina",
"word": "goose tansy"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Tanacetum douglasii",
"word": "northern dune tansy"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Amsinckia spp.",
"word": "sheep tansy"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Descurainia sophia",
"word": "tansy mustard"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Tanacetum vulgare",
"word": "wild tansy"
}
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "tanesie"
},
"expansion": "Old French tanesie",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ML.",
"3": "tanacetum"
},
"expansion": "Medieval Latin tanacetum",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocat": "1",
"title": "obscure"
},
"expansion": "obscure",
"name": "unk"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἀθανασία",
"t": "immortality"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ar",
"2": "حَشِيشَة الدُود",
"lit": "worm herb",
"tr": "ḥašīša ad-dūd"
},
"expansion": "Arabic حَشِيشَة الدُود (ḥašīša ad-dūd, literally “worm herb”)",
"name": "noncog"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ber",
"3": "-"
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],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tansies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "tansy (countable and uncountable, plural tansies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "pennyroyal"
},
{
"word": "savin"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271:",
"text": "Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare."
],
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[
"yellow",
"yellow"
],
[
"flower",
"flower"
],
[
"genus",
"genus"
],
[
"Tanacetum",
"Tanacetum#Translingual"
],
[
"Tanacetum vulgare",
"Tanacetum vulgare#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1662, Diary of Samuel Pepys:",
"text": "I had a pretty dinner for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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.\""
],
"links": [
[
"egg",
"egg"
],
[
"sugar",
"sugar"
],
[
"rose water",
"rose water"
],
[
"cream",
"cream"
],
[
"spinach",
"spinach"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable, obsolete) 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.\""
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtanzi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtæn.zi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(US) -ænzi"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥašīša ad-dūd",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حَشِيشَة الدُود"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vratíga",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "врати́га"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vratíka",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "врати́ка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tanarida"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "júhāo",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "菊蒿"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vratič"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "regnfang"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "rejnfan"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "reinfann"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "pietaryrtti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tanaisie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barbotine"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rainfarn"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "varádics"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "franclus"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lus na bhfrancach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tanaceto"
},
{
"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pòkrãtnik"
},
{
"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ksãżi kòlnérz"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vratiga",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вратига"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vratika",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вратика"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "t'naisie"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "soğulcan otu",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "صوغلجان اوتی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wrotycz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tanaceto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "atanásia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tanásia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vetrice"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pížma",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пи́жма"
},
{
"code": "sgs",
"lang": "Samogitian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marūns"
},
{
"code": "sgs",
"lang": "Samogitian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čīžmos"
},
{
"code": "sgs",
"lang": "Samogitian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "žižmars"
},
{
"code": "sgs",
"lang": "Samogitian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saulėis krislos"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "врàтич"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "вра̀тић"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "бу̀ха̄ч"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vràtič"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vràtić"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bùhāč"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vratič"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "vratȉč"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "renfana"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "solucan otu"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pýžmo",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пи́жмо"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"word": "cây cúc ngài"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "plant of the genus Tanacetum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tansi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Benedict (bishop of Milan)",
"de:Poematium Medicum",
"tansy"
],
"word": "tansy"
}
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