nuceus

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

nŭcĕus, a, um, adj. [nux],

of a nut-tree : fibulae unde fiant, aridae iligneae, ulmeae, nuceae, ficulneae, etc., Cato R. R. 31; id. ap. Plin. 16, 39, 75, § 193: virga nucea, Hier. Ep. 53, n. 8.