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/ˈtanzi/ · noun
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare..
The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.
I had a pretty dinner for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.
Use tansy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tansy means A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare..
Common synonyms include scented fern, golden buttons, tanacetum vulgare.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
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