The corpus record — Latin

taxicus

taxicus · adj

of the yewtree

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

taxĭcus — Lewis & Short

taxĭcus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of the yewtree, yew: venenum, supposed by some of the ancients to be toxica, Plin. 16, 10, 20, § 51.

In the wild

taxica Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.10.p10

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.