tansy

IPA: tˈænzi

A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
(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."
A female given name from English.

Examples of "tansy" in Sentences

She says a plant is fernleaf yarrow, I say it's tansy.
As heady as the fragrance of crushed tansy came the steady honking of grey geese announcing their return.
People throughout Western Washington are reporting unusual numbers of a poisonous weed called tansy ragwort.
BREMERTON - People throughout Western Washington are reporting unusual numbers of a poisonous weed called tansy ragwort.
I remark on the pungent foliage, and smartly share my knowledge that the word tansy comes from the French word for “nose-twister.”
Hoster is saying "tansy" on his deathbed because he regrets what he did to Lysa and is possibly one of the reasons Lysa left Riverrun and never returned.
Spring is the season for wild garlic, wild asparagus, morels and wood sorrel, chickweed, tansy and more, so it's the perfect time to learn how to forage for herbs and other plants.
Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.