A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

cavus,-a,-um (adj.A): hollow, excavated; concave; empty; opp. plenus,-a,-um, full, round; opp. soldius,-a,-um (adj.A), solid, firm, dense, compact, not hollow; opp. farctus,-a,-um (part.A), ‘stuffed, solid;’

“(of hills, rocks, etc.) hollowed out (so as to form a valley, passage, tunnel etc.), carved out, cut out, channelled; (of roads) rutted; (of valleys, roads, etc.) hollowed out, sunken; (of rivers and other water) having a deep channel, deep; having a cavity inside, hollow; (of the earth, mountains, rocks) containing caves or cavities; full of holes, porous; (of caves) hollow; ((of pipes): hollow, tubular” [cf. fistulose] (after Glare);

- cf. orbita,-ae (s.f.I), q.v., a track or rut made in the ground by a wheel; a (beaten) path.

- luna cava, the crescent or waning moon;

- via cava, excavated or trenched road, road cutting, rock cutting.

- flumina concava, the deep-channelled rivers, mountain streams.

- [Corydalis tuberosa] radice cava, = Fumaria cava” (DeCandolle) with a hollow root (opp. radice solida, a solid root).

- [Aquilegia] petala deorsum producta in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta (DeCandolle), petals downwardly prolonged, exserted into just as many spurs among the sepals as into a hollow, callous apex.

- solum amat limosum. Ericetorum incola, et horum praeprimis sicciora praerupta loca, ad vias cauas, scrobesque (Hedw.), it loves muddy soil. An inhabitant of Heathlands, and especially of these, the more arid rugged [i.e. broken] places, on excavated roads [i.e. road beds] and ditches.

- ovarium supra loculum plus minus in rostrum farctum (rarius cavum) productum (B&H), ovary extended above the locule more or less into a solid beak (more rarely hollow).

- rupes cavae, caverns, grottos,‘hollow rocks.’

- albumen cavum, a hollow albumen; see albumen,-inis (s.n.III).

- (Cyperac.) caules teretes v. compressiusculi, inter nodos saepius cavi, simplices v. ramosi (B&H), stems round or somewhat compressed, hollow between the nodes, unbranched or branched.

- (hepatic) folia dissita, rotundo- vel obovato-quadrata, caviuscula, sinu semilunari vel profundiore et latiore (Lindb.), leaves distant, rounded- or obovate-quare, somewhat concave with the sinus a half-moon [i.e. crescent] or deeper and wider.

- [moss] ad aggeres arenosos, graminosos, ad viarum cavarum latera denudata, on grassy sandy heaps, on the exposed sides of excavated roads.

- crassum est & breve, solidum seu non cavum, varie sinuosum, intestinorum & mesenterii gyros referens (Dill.), it is thick and short, solid or not hollow, variously sinuose, resembling the convolutions of the intestines and mesentery.

- [fungus] locis acclivibus (ad orbitas, vias cavas)(S&A), on upsloping surfaces (on wheel ruts, sunken roads [roads with potholes]).