pappus

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

pappus, i, m., = πάππος.

I An old man , Varr. L. L. 7, § 30 Müll.—

2 A grandfather , Aus. Idyll. 4, 18.—

II The woolly , hairy seed of certain plants , Lucr. 3, 386 Lachm.; also ap. Fest. p. 220 Müll.: semen ei lanuginis, quam pappon vocant, Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.—

III A plant , also called erigeron: quare eam Callimachus acanthida appellat, alii pappum, Plin. 25, 13, 106, § 168.

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