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.
Alexander Pope