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vinca pervinca

vinca pervinca · f

a plant

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What it meant

1. vinca pervinca — Lewis & Short

vinca pervinca (also in one word, vincapervinca), ae, f.,

I a plant, periwinkle, Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68; 21, 27, 99, § 172; called also simply pervinca, App. Herb. 58.

2. vincapervinca — Walde–Hofmann

vincapervinca, -ae f. (Plin.), auch vica pervica (Ps. Apul. herb. : gu pervincire, vincire „umwinden, binden“ (,Schlingpflanze* ; Vanitek 256). — Walde-P. I 234. vinciam „Kriegsbereich* : vinciam dieöbant continentem? Paul. Fest. p. 379): — abstrahiert aus prövineia „überseeisches Gebiet", s, oben II 377. . — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vincapervinca, p. 1699]

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