A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

miliary (Eng.adj., one ‘ell’), refers to millet; milliary (Eng. adj., two ‘ell’s), refers ‘to the distance of a mile;’ the L. adjs. miliarius (adj.A) and milliarius (adj.A) may apply to either:

1. milliary (Eng.adj.), “marking the distance of a mile” (WIII): miliarius,-a,-um (adj.A), also milliarius,-a,-um (adj.A) (Lewis & Short), containing or comprising a thousand [> L. mille, a thousand, + -arius (adj.A)];

- greges milliari, flocks or herds of a thousand [animals].

- annus miliarius, a thousand years.

Miliarium,-ii (s.m.II), also milliarium,-ii (s.m.II), abl. sg. milliario: a mile stone (which indicated a distance of a thousand paces, i.e. a Roman mile); the Roman mile itself; the number one thousand, a thousand (Lewis & Short);

- miliarium annorum, a space of a thousand years (Lewis & Short).

2. miliary (Eng.adj.): miliarius,-a,-um (adj.A), also, more rarely, milliarius,-a,-um (adj.A), of or belonging to millet, q.v., millet-; like millet seeds; (of a disease) accompanied by a rash with lesions resembling [the size of] millet seed, e.g. military tuberculosis (from the tiny size of the lesions (1-5 mm); with nodules (e.g. granulomas), papillae or vesicles resembling millet seeds; with surface lesions or nodules to 2 mm [> L. milium,-ii (s.n.II), millet, q.v.].

Miliarium,-ii (s.n.II), also milliarium -ii (s.n.II): “a short and thick pillar which stood in the center of the basin of an oil-mill to support the cupa; (in baths) a tall and narrow vessel for drawing and warming water” (Lewis & Short).

NOTE: scurf: a kind of dry miliary scab [the size of a millet seed].

Miliary glands “(obsol.) the stomates” (Lindley; Jackson): glandula (s.f.I) miliaria.

NOTE: Jackson reported ‘miliarius’ with a lower case ‘m’ (ordinarily an adjective) as though it were a noun: “minute glandular spots on the epiderm; Henslow spells it ‘miliaris’” (Jackson).

Miliary body: (fungi) “in Rhizoctonia, a hard, dark-colored, grainlike structure produced by the rolling up of hyphae, which is not a sclerotium but a propagative and infective unit (Langeron 1945)” (S&D); cf. tuberoid body.

Tuberoid body (fungi) “in Rhizoctonia, a small mycelial mass formed of irregular filaments with abundant cross walls, which is not a true sclerotium, but a true propagative body (Langeron 1945)” (S&D); cf. miliary body.