botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia clas. The fruit is oval and a little angled. There are but two species, viz. the libanotis, a native of Sicily; and the fucula, a native of Sicily and Spain.

Cacoethes; in medicine, an epithet applied, by Hippocrates, to malignant and difficult distempers: when applied to signs or symptoms, it imports what is very bad and threatening; and if given to tumours, ulcers, &c. it denotes a great malignancy.