A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Tumulus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. tumulo: an elevation of heaped earth, hill; hillock, mound, hillock; a pile; a sepulchral, burial- or grave-mound; see tymb-, tymbo-,-tymbus,-i (s.m.II): in Gk. comp. tomb-, -tomb; see hill, tomb; see heap;

- “Plantae Cestrienses, QUAS DILEXIT ATQUE ILLUSTRAVIT, SUPER TUMULUM EJUS, SEMPER FLOREANT," may the plants [of Chester, Co., Pennsylvania] which he loved and elucidated [also: ‘made famous’] flourish upon his burial-mound (epitaph on William Darlington’s gravestone). - habitat ad tumulos formicarum, it grows on ant-hills.

- frutex habitu pulvinato tumulos tegetesve formans, shrub with a cushion-shaped habit forming mounds or mats.

- in tumulis terrenis, on dirt mounds.

- [fungus] Novembri mense, in horto medico insignis Nosocomii Sanctae Мariae Novae Florentiae, super fimi equini tumulos (Mich.), in the November month, in the medicinal [i.e. physic] garden of the sign [i.e. emblem] of the hospital of Sainta Maria Nova of Florence, upon a mound (i.e. pile) of horse manure.

- [moss] locis aridis, ruderosis, praesertim carbonariorum areis Koelreutera hygrometrica delectatur; quin et coemeteriorum tumuli imo humana crania ossaque nonnullis foedum domicilium praebent (Brid.), Koelreutera hygrometrica takes pleasure in dry, rubbly [i.e. full of broken stones] places, especially in areas of charcoal furnaces; or even also the mounds of graveyards, even more the human skulls and bones provide a ghastly habitation to some.

- saepe arenarum inflammatarum nimbi elevantur qui viatores subito gradum sistere cogunt, iique suffocari aut etiam arenis circa tentoria in tumulum elevatis sepeliri summo in periculo versantur, si intra breve temporis intervallum venti non remittant (Desf.), often clouds of flaming sands are upraised, which abruptly compels travellers to arrest their steps [i.e. progress] and they are situated in the greatest danger, to be suffocated or even buried by sand raised up into a mound around their tents, if the winds within a short interval [i.e. period] of time do not abate.

Grumus,-i (s.m.II), q.v., abl. sg. grumo, also grummus,-i (s.m.II): a little heap, hillock of earth; a small tumulus;

- grumus terrae, a hillock of earth.