The corpus record — Latin

bisulcus

bisulcus · adj

divided into two parts

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Where it lives

De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

bĭsulcus — Lewis & Short

bĭsulcus, a, um, adj.bis-sulcus (twofurrowed), hence, in gen.,

I divided into two parts, two-cleft, cloven (poet. and in postAug. prose): lingua, forked, Pac. ap. Non. p. 506, 17; Ov. M. 9, 65: pedes, * Lucr. 2, 356; Ov. M. 7, 113; Plin. 11, 45, 105, § 254: ungula, a cloven hoof, id. 8, 21, 30, § 73; 10, 1, 1, § 1: cauda, id. 9, 29, 46, § 85: forcipes, id. 11, 28, 34, § 97.—

II Subst.: bĭsulca, ōrum, n. (sc. animalia), animals with cloven feet (opp. to the solidipedes), Plin. 11, 37, 85, § 212: cornigera fere bisulca, id. 11, 46, 106, § 255; 10, 65, 84, § 184; 10, 73, 93, § 199.—Rare in sing.: bisulcum oryx, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255.

In the wild

bisulcorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.65.p1
bisulca Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.46
bisulcum Tertullian, De Paenitentia 11
bisulca Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.29.p2
bisulcis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.73.p1
bisulcis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p5

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Where it came from

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