virectum

vĭrectum (less correctly vĭrētum ), i, n. [vireo], a place overgrown with grass, a green place, greensward, sod, turf: viretum, anthôn topos, Gloss.; mostly in plur.:

virecta nemorum,

Verg. A. 6, 638:

amoena virecta, of Paradise,

Prud. Cath. 3, 101:

latissima, Apol. M. 4, p. 143, 2: patentia,

id. ib. 8, p. 209 fin.; 10, p. 263, 24.—

II.

Transf., greenness, in gen.:

Scythidis (i. e. smaragdi),

Mart. Cap. 1, § 67.