different between tansy vs ragwort

English

Etymology

From Old French tanesie, tanoisie, tanasie, tanaisie, from Medieval Latin tanacetum, atanacetum, attested since the 8th century, of obscure origin, speculated from Ancient Greek ???????? (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 ???????? ??????? (?aš?ša ad-d?d, literally “worm herb”), otherwise a Berber borrowing like tagetes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tanzi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tæn.zi/

Noun

tansy (countable and uncountable, plural tansies)

1. A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 365:

     The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.

2. (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."
   • 1662, Diary of Samuel Pepys:

     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.

Derived terms

• double tansy
• tansy mustard (Descurainia sophia)

Translations

See also

• pennyroyal
• savin

References

Anagrams

• -nasty, Ansty, Nasty, Santy, Yants, antsy, nasty

English

Etymology

From rag (“referring to the ragged leaves”) +? wort.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?w??t/

Noun

ragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)

1. Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 237:

     Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.

Derived terms

• golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
• woolly ragwort

Translations

Further reading

• Ragwort (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia