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Brewer's: Tansy
A corruption of the Greek word athanasia, immortality, as thansa, tansy. So called because it is “a sort of everlasting flower.” (Hortus Anglicus, vol. ii. p. 366.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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