eruca

ērūca, ae, f.

• A caterpillar, cankerworm, Col. 11, 3, 63, p. 464 Bip.; Pall. 1, 35 saep.; Col. 10, 333; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 229, but here Sillig reads uruca, q. v.—
• II A sort of cole-wort, Brassica eruca, Linn.; Col. 11, 3, 29; 10, 109; 372; Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 154; Hor. S. 2, 8, 51; Mart. 3, 75; Vulg. Amos, 4, 9.

ērūca (herūca), ae, f. I) die Raupe, Kohlraupe (griech. κάμπη), Col. poët. 10, 333. Col. 11, 3, 63. Hieron. epist. 53, 8 (heruca). – Nbf. ūrūca, fast immer bei Plin. nat. hist. ed. Detl., zB. 10, 206; 17, 229; 19, 179 u. 180. Iuven. 6, 276. Gloss. II, 211, 59. – Nbf. ūrīca, Plin. 18, 154 D. – II) die wilde Rauke, eine Art Kohl (Brassica eruca, L.), Plin. 9, 154. Cels. 2, 21. Hor. sat. 2, 8, 51. Mart. 3, 75, 3. Iuven. 9, 134.

eruca [CL] 1 (bot.) rocket (Eruca sativa), charlock (Sinapis), hedge mustard (Sisymbrium), or sim.. b skirret (Sium). c basil (Ocymum). ~a, calfwyrt Ælf. Gl.; eruci, sinapis Gl. Durh.; sepius erucam si Birria sumat in esum / ictus quos meruit fit tolerare potens Neckam DS VII 185; †erutha est herba alba domestica et aliquando silvestris ‥ p[ar]alisim curat Bart. Angl. XVII 57; ciborum quidam inducunt luxuriam, ut ‥ ~a sicca ‥; sunt etiam quidam cibi quorum comestione castitas conservatur, ut ‥ ~a viridis M. Scot Phys. 1; hec ~a, erut Gl. AN Glasg. f. 19; ~a, sinapis albus, A. cherloc SB; ~a multum comesta venerem stimulat Alph. 58; ~a, A. whytpyper, ‥ a schynlock, ‥ a carlok WW; euzomon Latini ~am nominant vulgus rocket; aliqui vocant whyte pepper Turner Herb. B 1.  b ~a tam semen quam herba, A. skirwhit. calidus est in secundo gradu, siccus in primo SB; ~a, A‥. skyrwyt WW; ~a is an herbe þat men clepe skyrwyt‥. it steryth a man to letcherye Agnus Castus f. 183.  c ~a, vel ocimi GlH E 343. 2 kind of caterpillar. ~ae, modici vermes qui mandunt folia; multos pedes habent Gl. Leid. 39. 7; ~a, ‥ vermis in holera GlH E 343; ~a, mælscæafa Ælf. Gl.; transgressores legis ab ~a et brucho et locusta et rubigine comesos plangit et hortatur Johel [cf. Joel ii 25] Ord. Vit. VIII 15 p. 357; heruca, vermis holera erodens Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 276; s1193 ut nulla vacaret occasio et residuum ~e locusta ‥ absumeret [cf. Joel i 4], ad vasa sacra ventum est W. Newb. HA IV 38; nomen accepit ‥ ~a ex oleribus que corrodit P. Cornw. Disp. 150; hec ~a, a coleworm ‥ hoc eruga, A. a wurtwurme WW; tantus ~arum ‥ proventus tantaque vis fuit ut omnes fructus arborum herbarumque absumerent, mala, pyra, pruna, quaecunque ad frugem aliquam pervenerant, corrumperent, holera et quaecunque in hortis minores herbae crescunt ad caules usque arroderent Boece 302.

ērūca, (14) æ, f. , chenille : Col. Rust. 11, 3, 63 || roquette [plante] : Hor. S. 2, 8, 51.

eruca , ae. f.
肥蛛。水芥菜。

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ērūca ae, f

• a kind of cole-wort, H., Iu.