nŭcĕus — Lewis & Short
nŭcĕus, a, um, adj.id.,
I of a nut-tree:
fibulae unde fiant, aridae iligneae, ulmeae, nuceae, ficulneae, etc.,Cato, R. R. 31; id. ap. Plin. 16, 39, 75, § 193:
virga nucea,Hier. Ep. 53, n. 8.