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|lshtext=<b>virgultum</b>: i, n. contr. from virguletum, from [[virgula]] ([[only]] in plur.),<br /><b>I</b> a [[bush]], [[thicket]], [[copse]], [[shrubbery]], Caes. B. G. 3, 18 fin.; 7, 73; Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49; id. Cael. 18, 42; Liv. 1, 14, 7; id. E. 10, 7; id. A. 5, 661; Ov. M. 14, 349; Col. 2, 18, 1; 11, 2, 90.—<br /><b>II</b> Slips, cuttings of trees: defodere in terram virgulta, Lucr. 5, 933: silvestria, Verg. G. 2, 3; cf. id. ib. 2, 346.
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