The corpus record — Latin

callithrix

callithrix · f

A plant used for coloring the hair

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

callithrix — Lewis & Short

callithrix, trĭchos, f., = kalli/qric (fair-haired).

I A plant used for coloring the hair, also called trichomanes, Plin. 26, 15, 90, § 160; 26, 14, 87, § 147; 25, 11, 86, § 135.—

II Plur.: callitrĭches, um, a kind of ape or monkey in Ethiopia; acc. to Lichtenstein, Simia faunus, Linn.; Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216.

In the wild

callithrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.26.p54
callithrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.14.p1
callithrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.15.p2
callithrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p19
callithrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.25.p89

Where it came from

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