A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

suillus,-a,-um (adj.A): of or relating to pigs or swine, piggish, swinish; cf. porcinus,-a,-um (adj.A): of a hog, a hog’s, swine’s.

- [Epichysium argenteum; fungus] Nitore tandem amisso totus fungillus subfuscescit: bis inventus in stercoratis, sparsim crescens, merdae vetustae putri (suillae, ut videbatur) immersus (S&A), when the glossiness has finally been lost the entire fungillus grows almost brownish-black: discovered twice in manured [i.e. places, e.g. fields] sparsely growing, immersed in old rotten dung (of pigs, it seemed).

Adeps,-ipis (s.m.III) suillus (adj.A): pig grease, lard.

The fungus genus Suillus S. F. Gray (1821) “is based on Boletus luteus L. ex Fr. The fungus genus Suillus Haller ex O. Kuntze (1898) = the genus Boletus. The fungus genus Suillus Karst. (1882) “is based on Boletus cyanescens Bull. ex Fr. fide Murrill, 1909(Ainsworth & Bisby).

Fungi suilli: “of Pliny and other classical writers), the edible Botetus edulis Bull. ex Fr.” (Ainsworth & Bisby); this mushroom is called a ‘cep,’ q.v.