a. [f. L. ferulāce-us (f. ferul-a giant fennel) + -OUS: see -ACEOUS.] Resembling the ferula; having a stalk like a ferula.
1657. Phys. Dict., Ferulaceous, like the herb ferula.
1691. Ray, Creation, I. (1692), 194. These [Fountain] Trees are of the Ferulaceous kind.
1755. Porter, in Phil. Trans., XLIX. 253. The asa fœtida is drawn from a ferulaceous plant.
