Meaning of rufus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. red (in the most general sense, of all shades including orange and yellow)
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. red-haired
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“tertium genus [papāveris] rhān vocant Graecī, id nostrī errāticum; sponte quidem, sed in arvīs cum hordeō maximē nāscitur, ērūcae simile, cubitālī altitūdine, flōre rūfō et prōtinus dēciduō, unde et nōmen ā Graecīs accēpit.”

The third kind [of poppy] the Greeks call rhoea, and we call it "wild" (erraticum); it grows on its own, though on cultivated fields, especially together with barley, similar to rocket, being an elbow in height, with a red flower that is always falling off, from whence it has received that name from the Greeks.

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