internodium

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

inter-nōdĭum, ii, n. [nodus], the space between two knots or joints, an internode or joint.

I Of plants: harundinum, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 21.—

II Of the leg: mollia nervosus facit internodia poples, Ov. M. 6, 256. —

B Transf., the leg itself: longa internodia, Calp. Ecl. 1, 26.

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