The corpus record — Latin

forabilis

forabilis · adj

that may be pierced

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fŏrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

fŏrābĭlis, e, adj.foro,

I that may be pierced, penetrable: forabilia ac sectilia quae modice umida, Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 227. —Vulnerable: contemptor ferri nulloque forabilis ictu, Ov. M. 12, 170.

In the wild

forabilis Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.170
forabilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.43.p1

Where it came from

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