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muricatus

mūrĭcātus, a, um, adj. [murex], shaped like a purple-fish, pointed.
  • I Lit.: folia spinosa, muricatis cacuminibus, Plin. 20, 23, 99, § 262.—
  • II Transf. (acc. to murex, II. B. 3.), fearful, timid, as if walking over caltrops: gressus, Fulg. Myth. 1.

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