truncus adj. TARC-, maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured: Trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum), i. e. the trunk of a pinetree, V.: frons, without its horn, O.: corpus, limbless, O.: puerum trunci corporis natum, L.: Tela, i. e. broken, V.: arbor, deprived of branches, Cu.

— Poet. with gen: animalia Trunca pedum, i. e. without feet, V.

—Undeveloped, imperfect, wanting: ranae pedibus, O.

—Fig., maimed, mutilated: urbs trunca, sine senatu, etc., L.