The corpus record — Latin

eruca

eruca · f

A caterpillar

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ērūca — Lewis & Short

ērūca, ae, f.

I A caterpillar, cankerworm, Col. 11, 3, 63, p. 464 Bip.; Pall. 1, 35 saep.; Col. 10, 333; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 229, but here Sillig reads uruca, q. v.—

II A sort of cole-wort, Brassica eruca, Linn.; Col. 11, 3, 29; 10, 109; 372; Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 154; Hor. S. 2, 8, 51; Mart. 3, 75; Vulg. Amos, 4, 9.

Where it came from

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