I.a tuft, a panicle on plants.
I. Lit.: tu legiones difflavisti spiritu, quasi ventus folia aut paniculum tectorium, a tuft of thatch, i. e. of reeds used for thatching, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 17; cf. id. Rud. 1, 2, 34; Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 49: “Graecula rosa convolutis foliorum paniculis,” id. 21, 4, 10, § 18: “panicum a paniculis dictum,” id. 18, 7, 9, § 53.—
II. Transf., a swelling, tumor, Scrib. Comp. 82; App. Herb. 13.