thallus

i, m.
I. a green stalk, green bough: cepae, Col. 11, 3, 58; Pall. Febr. 24, 4: Amyclaeus, perh. a myrtlebough, Verg. Cir. 376; Vulg. 2 Macc. 14, 4.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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