adjective
tūrĕus
Meaning
- of frankincense
tūrĕus (thūrĕus), a, um, adj. tus,
I. of frankincense:
solis est turea virga Sabaeis, the frankincense-shrub, Verg. G. 2, 117; so, virga, Ov. M. 4, 255: planta, Col. 3, 8, 4: grana, Ov. F. 4, 410: dona, Verg. A. 6, 225: altaria, on which incense is burned, Stat. Th. 4, 412.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tūreus (thū-) adj.
tus, of frankincense : virga, the frankincense-shrub , V.: grana, O.