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MORINA

Volume 12 · 85 words · 1797 Edition

in botany: A genus of the monogyne order, belonging to the diandra class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 48th order, Aggregate. The corolla is unequal; the calyx of the fruit is monophyllous and dented; the calyx of the flower bifid; there is one seed under the calyx of the flower.

MORINORUM CASTELLUM (anc. geog.), simply Cattellum (Antonine); situated on an eminence, with a spring of water on its top, in the territory of the Morini. Now Mont Caffel, in Flanders.