lāniger, gera, gerum, adj. lana-gero, wool-bearing, fleecy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): pecus, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: greges, Verg. G. 3, 287: arbores, i. e. cottontrees, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38: fertilitas, of insects. id. 11, 24, 28, § 80.

— Subst. lāniger, geri, m., a ram, Ov. M. 7, 312.

—Of a lamb: timens, Phaedr. 1, 1, 6.

—Of the constellation of the Ram, for Aries, Manil. 1, 672; 2, 200 al.

— lānigera, ae, f., a lamb, sheep, Sil. 15, 703.