A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Gallinaceus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. gallinaceo: a cockerel or young male chicken; see chicken; see gallus,-i (s.m.II).

gallinaceus,-a,-um (adj.A): pertaining to poultry or domestic fowls; (of plants) “Cunila gallinacea, = Gk. konilE, a kind of savory; Pedes gallinacei, chicken-feet, fumitory” (Lewis & Short);

- [hepatic] Jungermannia Alpina nigricans major, pedes gallinaceos squamis suis mentiens (Dill.), Jungermannia Alpina blackish, larger, resembling gallinaceous [i.e. chicken-] feet with its scales.

- Onobrychis seu Caput Gallinaceum, minus, fructu maximo, insigniter echinato (Tourn.), Onobrychis or ‘Chicken’s head,’ smaller, with the fruit very large, remarkably echinate.

- Fungus esculentus, acris, pulchre crocеus, pileolo turbinato, ad oras angulato, & subtus repando. ‘Gallinacei subcrocei coloris, figura auriculae (Mich.), [an edible Fungus, bitter, beautifully crocus-yellow, with a turbinate [small] pileus [i.e. cap], angled on the [edges], and repand below. ‘of the color of a somewhat crocus-colored chicken, in the shape of an ear.’

- caulis crassitie straminis tritici vel pennae corvinae vel gallinaceae, stem with the thickness of straw of wheat or of the feather of a raven or domestic fowl (Stearn).

- pullus (s.m.II) gallinaceus, the young of a fowl or hen, a chick.

- Herbam viridem, priusquam semen maturuerit, boves jumentaque pascuntur. Semine gallinaceum genus pastum citissime pinguescit. J. B. (Ray), a green herb, before the seed would have ripened, cattle and draught animals pasture on it. The gallinaceous kind fed with the seed very quickly grows fat.