A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Ventus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. vento: wind; breeze, puff or draught of air; intestinal wind;

– thermometrum aestate a 26 gradibus usque ad 32 ascendit, sed calores ventis circa horam nonam matutinis e mare spirantibus nocturnisque roribus temperantur (Desf.), the thermometer in summer rises from 26 degrees to 32 [degrees], but the heats are regulated by the morning winds around the nineth hour blowing from the sea, and by the night damps [i.e. dews].

- [Lichenoides ceratophyllon] facile per senium abscedit, & cum levis sit & cohaereat, a ventis huc illuc agitari solet (Dill.), it easily comes away with old age, and whenever it may be smooth and adhere, it is used to being agitated to and fro by breezes.

- 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 reatest 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.