caricæ

See also: caricae

English

Etymology

From Latin carica.

Noun

caricæ pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, medicine) figs, especially those from Caria
   • 1776, John Rutty, Observations on the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, page 205:

     Caricæ taken largely give a fetor to the Sweat.

References

• Robley Dunglison (1895) A dictionary of medical science, page 192