A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

degens,-entis (part.B): living, 'spending, biding or passing the time' [> L. dego, degi, 3, to live; to spend, pass (as time), to wait; syn. cf. ago, gero, facio; with acc., to continue; to endure (to live on), to remain alive; to carry on, wage (Lewis & Short)];

- [fungi] quarum altera species complectitur frondicolas, in arborum nimirum herbarumve frondosarum foliis aliisque partibus succulentis degentes (S&A), the other species of which embraces the leaf-dwelling ones, living on the leaves and other succulent parts of trees or doubtless herbs.

- [fungus] bis inventus fungus notabilis: prima vice cellaris in lignis pineis vetustis (cellae Seminarii) Januario — secunda in iisdem sub dio degentibus, sed loco suffocato ad basin sepium puridarum (S&A); a notable fungus found twice: the first time on the old pine wood of a cellar (of the store-room of the Seminarium) in January – the second living on the same [sc. wood] under the sky [i.e. in the open], but in an airless [i.e. strangled, smothered] place at the base of rotted hedges.

- truncos abietinos aliosque praeamat vulgatior a, folia ac varias quisquilias humi degentes locis praesertim tectis b; utraque aestiva et autumnalis (S&A), it loves very much fir-tree trunks and other [trees], more common a, leaves and various litter living on the ground, especially roofs b; each one of summer and autumn.

- plantae in caespitulis laete virentibus nitidis degentes, plants living ('passing the time') in little tufts brightly green shining.

degeret: third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive:[he/she] it would have been living;

degit, third-person singular pres. act. indic. ‘(he,she) it lives;’

- (moss) in terra degit, locis umbrosis madentibus; vere laetissime pullulans (C. Mueller), it lives on soil, in shady, wet places; most exuberantly germinating in spring.

- ad terram humosam degit (C. Mueller), it lives on humose soil.

degunt, third-person plural present active indicative: they live; -[algae; Florideae] in sabulosis, paucissimae in limosis et mari stagnanti degunt (Agardh), they live in gravely [places], extremely few in silty ones, and in the standing [i.e. stangant] sea.

degere: present active infinitive: to live;

- [Weisia recurvirostra; moss] gregatim in locis lapidoso-sabulosis, tenui gramine stipatis arctissimo in consortio degere amat (Hedw.), in stoney-gravelly places, it loves to live gregariously [i.e. in clusters or groups] crowded in the closest association with a thin grass.