lapidosus

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

lăpĭdōsus, a, um, adj. [lapis], full of stones, stony.

I Lit.: lapidosa terra, Varr. R. R. 1, 9: montes, Ov. M. 1, 44: ager, id. ib. 8, 799: fluvius, id. ib. 15, 23.—

II Transf., hard as stone, stony : panis, Hor. S. 1, 5, 91: corna, Verg. G. 2, 34: genus pirorum, Pall. 3, 25, 1; 3, 25, 6: gemma, Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 145: chiragra, Pers. 5, 58.— Comp. : est lapidosius, Plin. 34, 12, 30, § 120.

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