daucum

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

daucum (-on), i, n., also daucus, i, m., Scrib. Comp. 167; 170; 177 = δαῦκον,

a plant of the parsnip or carrot kind , much used in medicine, Plin. 19, 5, 27, § 89: probatissimus in Creta, id. 25, 9, 64, § 110 al.; Cels. 5, 23, 3 al. In App. Herb. 80, called daucion and daucites.