cobion
From LSJ
πῶς δ' οὐκ ἀρίστη; τίς δ' ἐναντιώσεται; τί χρὴ γενέσθαι τὴν ὑπερβεβλημένην γυναῖκα; (Euripides' Alcestis 152-54) → How is she not noblest? Who will deny it? What must a woman have become to surpass her?
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
cōbĭon: ii, n., = κώβιον,
I a species of the plant tithymalus (wolf's-milk), called also dendroides and leptophyllon, Plin. 26, 8, 45, § 71.