silphion
laserwort
laser **
silphium latin

Some scholars suggest it is silphion, a rare plant for which Arkesilaos had a trade monopoly.

The Greek colony of Cyrene exported a medicinal plant known as silphion, used as a purgative and emetic.

Silphium (also known as silphion or laser) was a plant that was used in classical antiquity as a rich seasoning and as a medicine.

I felt as though he had turned a laser on me.

They had the best laser guy in the world, by the way.

Maybe the answer isn't to try making our own laser at all.

He was running, with something like a laser in his hand.

The only thing he could do now was use the laser.

The laser team wouldn't be the only one working late.

The more experience your doctor has had with laser, the less risk you are likely to have.

I took a great risk with the laser stuff there.

It used up efforts we could have spent on a laser system!

I guess there's evidence he got hit by a laser.

Any minute they could come in and hit him with a laser.

The next thing you know we're going to start having laser shows back there.

Out here there were no laser systems to tell you who'd been killed.

I believe that will be the last we'll hear of any laser defense site.

Or was this another situation like the one they had just gone through with the laser?

I wasn't near enough for a laser hit that would stop her.

I sat down on the floor, holding the laser, and tried to think.

You can look at any laser and see how it could be used to read information.

Before I could do anything else, a laser shot hit me in the right shoulder.

She Turned to look at him, her eyes like lasers.

He'd been certain that the laser would cut through the rock.

With the laser on me, the only problem he had was not missing.

The door opened almost at the first touch of the laser.

Both sides were using a great deal of laser energy to very little effect.

Even laser treatment has failed to stop the hair growth.

The cause of silphium's supposed extinction is not entirely known.

Most notable for this use is the extinct giant fennel, silphium.

Contemporary writings help tie silphium to sexuality and love.

Whatever else silphium contained besides laserpicium evidently had the same effect as greens.

This town was famous for its export of the herb silphium, used by the ancients in medicine and cooking.

Which is why silphium grows so well.

But one theory says the substance here depicted is not Silphium but wool).

From silphium a people called the Psylli extract laserpicium.

The identity of silphium is highly debated.

For a few years my Silphium will try in vain to rise above the mowing machine, and then it will die.

The ancient Greeks relied upon the herb silphium as an abortifacient and contraceptive.

The high demand eventually led to the extinction of Silphium during the third or 2nd century BC.

No goat expert, he supposed this had something to do with too much silphium and no straw hats or other delicacies.

In the past the mountains probably also had the Silphium plant, which was treasured in antiquity but is now believed to be extinct.

Silphium figured so prominently in the wealth of Cyrene that the plant appeared on coins minted there.

Silphium perfoliatum is able to establish colonies due to its central taproot system and shallow rhizomes.

But what tiny supplies of driftwood they combed from the beaches had to be saved for the cooking fires, silphium and meat.

The powdered form of Silphium perfoliatum L. has diaphoretic and tonic properties.

In it, silphium is claimed to be the true source of power of the mysterious Fountain of Youth.

"Extracting laserpicium from silphium is women's work, and that is what you must do- extract it as you march.

Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)

The botanist Theophrastus documented the use of Silphium, a plant well known for its contraceptive and abortifacient properties.

Cyrenaica exported wheat, barley, olive oil and silphium (an unidentified plant with aromatic & medicinal properties).

Silphium terebinthinaceum var.

Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)