limosus

līmōsus, a, um, adj. [2. limus], full of mud or slime, slimy, miry, muddy:

quae (aqua) flumine Nilo fertur, adeo est limosa atque turbida, etc.,

Hirt. B. Alex. 5:

limosoque palus obducit pascua junco,

i. e. growing in muddy places, Verg. E. 1, 49; cf.

radix,

Plin. 27, 1, 17, § 34:

lacus,

Verg. A. 2, 135:

ripae,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 1:

harena,

id. Tr. 4, 1, 7.— Plur. absol.: līmōsa, ōrum, n., muddy or miry places, Plin. 9, 42, 66, § 142.