bălaustĭum — Lewis & Short
bălaustĭum, ii, n., = balau/stion,
I the flower of the wild pomegranate, Plin. 13, 19, 34, § 113; Col. 10, 297; Scrib. Comp. 85 and 112; Veg. Vet. 3, 16, 1.
The corpus record — Latin
balaustium
balaustium · n
the flower of the wild pomegranate
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- balaustium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.19.p1
- balaustium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.13.p42
- balaustio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.23.p61
- balaustium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.6.p7
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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