Definition of Aethusa

1. Noun. Fool's parsley.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Aethusa

Aertel
Aertex
Aeschylean
Aeschylus
Aeschynanthus radicans
Aesculapian
Aesculapius
Aesculus
Aesculus hippocastanum
Aesir
Aesop
Aesop's fables
Aesopian
Aesops
Aethionema
Aethusa (current term)
Aethusa cynapium
Aetobatus
Aetobatus narinari
Aetolia
AfPak
Afade
Afars and Issas
Afbachir
Afeefa
Aferdita
Afers
Affade
Affenpinscher

Literary usage of Aethusa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1887)
"This portico is the 'aethusa' ... Hence aethusa and prodomus are sometimes used con- ... aethusa is said to sleep in the prodomus. ..."

2. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"... Aethusa. Spec, medeoloides, must be erased, it is described at p. 335, under Pogonia. ASCLEPIAS. In some Of the species, ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1875)
"He further states that all the symptoms attributed to aethusa in Hempel's " Materia Medica" are taken from reports of cases which Dr. Harley condemns as ..."

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