English search results for: ballochory [seed dispersal by explosive hurling as done by touch me nots]
#1801
adverb
Definitions:
- by leaps and bounds
- by leaps, by hops
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1802
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- sandy place (as opposed to muddy)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1803
adjective
Definitions:
- muscatel (grape loved by the bees)
- of/belonging to bees
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1804
noun
Definitions:
- anchovy? (L+S)
- small fish (regarded by Pliny as a separate species)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1805
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- anchovy? (L+S)
- small fish (regarded by Pliny as a separate species)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1806
noun
Definitions:
- vegetable/wood ash (as substitute for mineral ash)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1807
noun
Definitions:
- woman resting (as title of painting)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1808
noun
Definitions:
- diamond (as remedy for sadness L+S)
- hardest of substances (adamas)
- steel
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1809
noun
Definitions:
- precious stone (unknown, diamond?) (as remedy for sadness)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1810
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (said to bring back lost love by its touch)
- plant (unidentified)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1811
noun
Definitions:
- (extract acts as active, gentle purgative)
- turpeth (globularia alypum)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1812
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- plant use as antidote for snake-bite
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1813
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- add by digging
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1814
noun
Definitions:
- (flour from seeds, herb medicine, pickled as a dainty)
- fenugreek, Greek hay
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1815
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: intransitive
Definitions:
- act as sacristan, be in charge/take care of temple
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1816
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- power of counteracting, efficacy as an antidote
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Age:
Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1817
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- adulteration
- corruption/debasement by spurious admixture/crossbreeding
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1818
adverb
Definitions:
- by leaps and bounds
- by leaps, by hops
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1819
verb
- conjugation: 3rd conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- add by digging
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1820
noun
Definitions:
- medicinal plant (said to be discovered by Achilles)
- milfoil, yarrow
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1821
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (fertilizer used by Celts in Gaul/Britain)
- red marl (clayey limestone)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)