oppecto

ĕre, v. a.

ob-pecto

I. to comb off; transf., of eating, to pluck or pick off, to pick, to eat: nimio melius oppectuntur frigida, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 31.

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Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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