corylis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →corylus, coryli:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
hazel-tree; hazel wood; filbert shrub (L+S);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
- P
Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...calamos inflare leuis, ego dicere uersus, hic corylis mixtas inter consedimus ulmos? Mopsus Tu maior; tibi..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...respondent, solido Paphiae de robore myrtus, plantis edurae coryli. nascuntur et ingens fraxinus Herculeaeque arbos umbrosa coronae, Chaoniique..." - P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tiliae molles, nec fagus et innuba laurus, et coryli fragiles et fraxinus utilis hastis enodisque abies curvataque glandibus..."