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P. and V. θάμνος, ὁ, Ar. and V. λόχμη, ἡ, V. δρῡμός, ὁ.
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P. and V. θάμνος, ὁ, Ar. and V. λόχμη, ἡ, V. δρῡμός, ὁ.
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frutices virgulta plur. (a collection of several bushes near each other): fruticetum frutetum (a place overgrown with bushes etc.): spinetum (overgrown with thorns): viminetum (full of withies): locus crebris condensus arboribus (after Hirt. B. Afr. 50): locus teneris arboribus et crebris rubis sentibusque obsitus (after Caes. B.G. 2 17).
frutices virgulta plur. (a collection of several bushes near each other): fruticetum frutetum (a place overgrown with bushes etc.): spinetum (overgrown with thorns): viminetum (full of withies): locus crebris condensus arboribus (after Hirt. B. Afr. 50): locus teneris arboribus et crebris rubis sentibusque obsitus (after Caes. B.G. 2 17).
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1. frŭtĭcētum (also contr. frŭtectum, frŭtētum, Col.: Plin.): to climb hills by grasping t.s or bushes, scandere clivos f. prensando vel dumos, Amm. 14, 2, 6: Hor. Od. 3, 12, 10. Suet. (Hence adj. frŭtectōsus: a tract covered with t.s, f. tractus, Col. 2, 2, 11.) [N.B.--Instead of the collect. subs. may be used the pl. of frŭtex, ĭcis, m., or even the sing., as in Phaedr. 1, 11, 4: v. L. Gr. § 590.]
2. dūmētum (a place covered with brushwood): a tomb surrounded and overgrown with thorns and t.s, septum et vestitum vepribus sepulcrum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 64. Fig.: the t.s of the Stoics (i. e. the mazes of their logic), Stoicorum d., id. Acad. 2, 35, 112.
3. virgulta, ōrum, n. pl. (brushwood, esp. young, thickly growing shoots): ensconced in the t., virgultis abditus, Ov. M. 14, 349: in concealed spots round about the dense tangled t.s, locis circa densa obsita v. obscuris, Liv 1, 14, ad med. (Weissenborn).
4. expr. by the coll. termination -ētum or -tum, when a particular kind of t. is meant: a willow t., salictum (cf. Ov. M. 11, 363): an osier t., viminetum: a t. of thorns, spinetum, etc.: v.WILLOW , OSIER , THORN , etc.
1. frŭtĭcētum (also contr. frŭtectum, frŭtētum, Col.: Plin.): to climb hills by grasping t.s or bushes, scandere clivos f. prensando vel dumos, Amm. 14, 2, 6: Hor. Od. 3, 12, 10. Suet. (Hence adj. frŭtectōsus: a tract covered with t.s, f. tractus, Col. 2, 2, 11.) [N.B.--Instead of the collect. subs. may be used the pl. of frŭtex, ĭcis, m., or even the sing., as in Phaedr. 1, 11, 4: v. L. Gr. § 590.]
2. dūmētum (a place covered with brushwood): a tomb surrounded and overgrown with thorns and t.s, septum et vestitum vepribus sepulcrum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 64. Fig.: the t.s of the Stoics (
3. virgulta, ōrum, n. pl. (brushwood, esp. young, thickly growing shoots): ensconced in the t., virgultis abditus, Ov. M. 14, 349: in concealed spots round about the dense tangled t.s, locis circa densa obsita v. obscuris, Liv 1, 14, ad med. (Weissenborn).
4. expr. by the coll. termination -ētum or -tum, when a particular kind of t. is meant: a willow t., salictum (cf. Ov. M. 11, 363): an osier t., viminetum: a t. of thorns, spinetum, etc.: v.