zoster

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

zoster, ēris, m., = ζωστήρ (a girdle).

I A kind of herpes , the shingles (cf. zona, II. E.), Plin. 26, 11, 74, § 121.—

II A kind of sca shrub ( called also prason), Plin. 13, 25, 48, § 135.