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misy

misy

A kind of mushroom

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What it meant

mĭsy — Lewis & Short

mĭsy, ўos (in the

I gen. also misys, Scrib. Comp. 34; and, misy, Cels. 6, 7, 2; 5, 19, 15; Veg. 6, 16, 1), n., = mi/su.
I A kind of mushroom or truffle, Plin. 19, 3, 12, § 36.—
II A mineral, perh. a vitriolic ore, copperas, sory, Plin. 34, 12, 27, § 114; Cels. 5, 19, 8; 27; Scrib. Comp. 34; 240.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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