gĕlōtŏphyllis — Lewis & Short
gĕlōtŏphyllis, ĭdis, f., = gelwto/fullis,
I a plant that causes laughter, probably a sort of crow-foot, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 164.
The corpus record — Latin
gelotophyllis
gelotophyllis · f
a plant that causes laughter
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- gelotophyllide Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p103
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.