stĕphănītis

I. a kind of vine, which winds about in the shape of garlands, Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 42; Macr. S. 2, 16 fin.—Called also, stĕphănītes, ae, m., = στεφανίτης, Col. 3, 2, 2; Isid. Orig. 17, 5.