termĕs

I. a bough cut off from the olive-tree, Hor. Epod. 16, 45; of the palm-tree, Gell. 3, 9, 9: inculto termite, Grat. Cyn. 20; cf.: termes ramus desectus ex arbore nec foliis repletus, ac nimis glaber, Fest. p. 367 Müll.