mўrīcē

ēs, f.
I. the tamarisk, a kind of shrub, Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116; 24, 9, 41, § 67.—Prov., to signify something impossible: pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae, Verg. E. 8, 54.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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