anthyllion

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

anthyllĭon, ii, n., = ἀνθύλλιον,

a plant , acc. to Sprengel, the Cretan pitchplant : Cressa Cretica, Linn.; Plin. 26, 8, 51, § 84 (called in Plin. 21, 99, 103, § 175, also anthyllum).