I.an aromatic shrub, from which the Romans prepared a costly, fragrant balsam: Cissus vitiginea, Linn.; Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 43; 16, 32, 59, § 135: “Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum,” Verg. E. 4, 25; so id. ib. 3, 89; Ov. P 1, 9, 52; Mart. 5, 65; Pers. 3, 104.
ămōmum or -on , i, n., = ἄμωμον,