I.wool-bearing, fleecy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): pecus, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: “greges,” Verg. G. 3, 287: “arbores,” i. e. cottontrees, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38: fertilitas, of insects. id. 11, 24, 28, § 80.—
II. Subst.
A. lānĭger , gĕri, m., a ram, Ov. M. 7, 312. —Of a lamb: “timens,” Phaedr. 1, 1, 6.—Of the constellation of the Ram, for Aries, Manil. 1, 672; 2, 200 al.—
B. lānĭgĕra , ae, f., a lamb, sheep, Sil. 15, 703.