The corpus record — Latin

torosus

torosus · adj

full of muscle

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Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

tŏrōsus — Lewis & Short

tŏrōsus, a, um, adj.torus,

I full of muscle, muscular, brawny, fleshy, lusty.

I Lit.: colla boum, Ov. M. 7, 429: cervix boum, Col. 6, 1, 3; cf.: tauris torosior cervix, id. 6, 20: juventus, Pers. 3, 86. —

II Transf.: herba hirsutior torosiore caule, more fleshy, Plin. 21, 15, 53, § 90; 19, 5, 29, § 91: virgula, Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1: clava, knotty, Albin. 2, 79.

Where it came from

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