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melanthium

melanthium · n

the plant

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 13 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

mĕlanthĭum — Lewis & Short

mĕlanthĭum (-on), ii, n., = mela/nqion,

I the plant gith, cultivated fennel-flower: gith e Graecis alii melanthion, alii melaspermon, vocant, Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182; Col. poët. 10, 245; also chamomile, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 53.—Called also mĕlanthum, Ser. Samm. 30.

Where it came from

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