Virgultum, virgulti, n. g. Plin. A yong shoote or spring rismg out of the ground.Cornea virgulta. Vir. Sonantia syluis virgulta. Vir. Syluestria virgulta. Vir. Tenera attondent simæ virgulta capellæ.Virg.The goates brouse vpon the yong shootes of trees.Noua virgulta in terram defodere. Lucr. Resonant auibus virgulta canoris. Vir. Virgindemia.A gathering of osiars to make bonds and other things.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
virgultum, i, n. [contr. from virguletum, from virgula] (only in plur.), a bush, thicket, copse, shrubbery, Caes. B. G. 3, 18 fin.; 7, 73; Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49; id. Cael. 18, 42; Liv. 1, 14, 7; id. E. 10, 7; id. A. 5, 661; Ov. M. 14, 349; Col. 2, 18, 1; 11, 2, 90.—II.Slips, cuttings of trees: defodere in terram virgulta, Lucr. 5, 933: silvestria, Verg. G. 2, 3; cf. id. ib. 2, 346.