caricæ

See also: caricae

English

Etymology

From Latin carica.

Noun

caricæ pl (plural only)

(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

1895, Robley Dunglison, A dictionary of medical science, page 192.

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