pycnocomon

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

pycnŏcŏmon, i, n., = πυκνόκομον,

a plant , devil's-bit : Scabiosa succisa, Linn.; or, acc. to Sprengel, small-flowered motherwort : Leonurus Marrubiastrum, Linn.; Plin. 26, 8, 36, § 57.