Amomum, pen. pro. A litle shrub growing in Armenia, round rogither like a cluster of grapes, hauing a flower like a white violet, and leaues like withwind or white vine.Assyrium.Virg. Crassom. Pers. Fragrans. Sil. Mitis amomi seges. Claud. Pingue.Stat. Spirans. Lactantius. Casting a sweete sanour.Spissum.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ămōmum or -on, i, n., = a)/mwmon, 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.