Associations to the word «Silphium»
Wiktionary
SILPHIUM, noun. A plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in cooking and as a contraceptive.
Dictionary definition
SILPHIUM, noun. Tall North American perennial herbs.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.