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Ferula is the Ferula or even Jumbo fennel genus of plants of the Apiaceae family, including: F. asafoetida - Asafoetida F. caspica F. communis - Giant fennel F. conocaula F. foetida F. gummosa - Galbanum F. karelinii F. longifolia F. marmarica F. moschata - Musk root F. narthex - Ferula F. persica F. schair F. szowitziana F. tingitiana

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Apparently processed from either this plant, the Romans known as a lightly rod (equivalence fasces, judicial birches) ferula as well. In modern languages, like a French férule, this became applied to the device utilized unremarkably to punish (school)youngsters, consisting of the commonly wooden or even leather palet, normally applied on the palm of the outstretched hand. A word is besides utilized metyonymically for despised discipline. A equivalent goes for a bit of etymologically unrelated equivalents around more languages, when a Dutch plak