Thapsus

[ thap-suhs ]

noun

1. an ancient town on the coast of Tunisia: decisive victory of Caesar 46 b.c.

Thapsus

/ ˈθæpsəs /

noun

1. an ancient town near Carthage in North Africa: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey in 46 bc

Example Sentences

Apparently Dr. Beal had intended to preserve a different species, Verbascum thapsus.

From New York Times

Apparently Beal had intended to preserve a different species, Verbascum thapsus.

From Seattle Times

Another species—V. Thapsus, L.—is also quite common.

From Project Gutenberg

Preparation.—Fill a bottle with the blossoms from the Verbascum thapsus, cork tight, and hang in the sun for four or five weeks.

From Project Gutenberg

In an old note-book of Dr. Hering's, Hearing and Ears, copied for me with the author's permission by my friend Dr. C. R. Norton, I noticed the following: "In Germany, flowers of Verbascum thapsus put in a dark-colored bottle, hung up in the sunlight, give in two or three weeks an oily fluid which has cured many old people and children."

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