A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Limus,-i (s.m.II): slime, mud, mire; dirt, filth; silt, sediment (as of wine) or ‘fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor’ (Wikipedia); “also encrusted dirt of any sort” (Glare); a kind of liquefied or watery dirt, as a sediment; dirt, filth, muck:([liquid] dirt, rubbish, or waste matter; manure); “any viscous substance, slime” (Glare); see argilla,-ae (s.f.I), clay; see soil; see sediment, marl; cf. lutum,-i (s.n.II).

NOTE: the word is not related to the Eng.noun ‘lime;’ see lime (Eng.noun).

- ex limo fluviatili segregatus, isolated from river silt.

- saturare limo pingui sola, to saturate [i.e. drench] the grounds with a rich muck [i.e. manure].

- limus fluviatilis, abl.sg. limo fluviatili (adj.B), river silt.

- limus labilis, mud that is slippery.

- [Conferva marina pennata; alga] lapillis adnascitur in marinis littoribus, quoquoversus expansa, limo arenaque, interstitia ejus replentibus (Dill.), it grows on small stones[i.e. pebbles] on sea shores, spread out in all directions, on mud and sand, filling the interstices [i.e. spaces] of it.

- radícula macropoda in Rhizophoreis verticem pericarpii perforans, limum petens et in eo germinans dum adhuc fructus arbori adhaeret (B&H); radicle macropodous in the Rhizophoreae, perforating the apex of the pericarpium, seeking mud and germinating in it, eventually to the point where the fruit adheres to a tree.

- [Oscillatoria nigra; algae] stratum expansum, ex purpureo- nigrum gelatinosum,limo obtectum (Agardh), the expanded layer from purple to black, gelatinous, covered in mud [or sediment].

- [OSCILLATORIA AUTUMNALIS; algae] stratum, expansum, variae latitudinis, tenuissimum, vix semi-lineam altum, gelatinosum, nitens, per limum repens, (Agardh), the expanded layer of differing width, very thin, scarcely a half-line tall, gelatinous, shining, creeping through the mud [or silt].

- [Bryum Phyllitidis folio rugoso] Terræ aliquousque immerguntur caules, quibus tomentum adnascitur ex ferrugineo nigricans, a limo ægre liberandum (Dill.), the stems are covered up in soil to a certain point [i.e. to some extent], upon which the tomentum grows blackish to ferrugineous [i.e. rusty-red], to be freed with difficulty from the mud.

Limosella L. Mudwort, “Name a diminutive of limus, mud, Linnaeus explaining it as 'a limo natali dicte [sic], called from its native mud' (Fernald 1950).

NOTE: there is an adjective limus,-a,-um (adj.A): sidelong, askew, aslant, askance; to look sideways, look askance; the ‘limi Di’ were the guardian gods of obliquities (Lewis & Short); Limus,-i (s.m.II) was the god of oblique glances.

NOTE: there is another noun: limus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. limo: a girdle or apron trimmed with purple; “a garment reaching from the waist to the feet, worn esp. by certain attendants of magistrates” (Glare).