senecio

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds

From the genus name.

“What was in the letter?” asked Senecio. — Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, Henryk Sienkiewicz
Soon after, our own hands [154] dragged Helvidius [155] to prison; ourselves were tortured with the spectacle of Mauricus and Rusticus, [156] and sprinkled with the innocent blood of Senecio. — The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus
What amount of argument, Sossius Senecio, will make a man know that he is improving in respect to virtue, if his advances in it do not bring about some diminution in folly, but vice, weighing equally with all his good intentions, "acts like the lead that makes the net go down? — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch

genus Senecio

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