prototomi

prōtŏtŏmus, a, um, adj., = prôtotomos, that is cut off first, of the first cutting:

caules,

the earliest cabbage - sprouts, Col. 10, 369 (cf. Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 137); so,

coliculi,

Mart. 14, 101.—

2.

As subst.: prō-tŏtŏmi, ōrum, m., cabbages of the first cutting, Mart. 10, 48, 16.