melanthium

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mĕlanthĭum: (-on), ii, n., = μελάνθιον>,
I the plant gith, cultivated fennel-flower: gith e Graecis alii melanthion, alii melaspermon, vocant, Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182; Col. poët. 10, 245; also chamomile, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 53.—Called also mĕlanthum, Ser. Samm. 30.