turrĭger, gĕra. gĕrum. adj. [turris-gero], turret-bearing, turreted.
- I. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): umeri elephantorum, Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 4: ferae moles, Sil. 9, 560: urbes, Verg. A. 10, 253: ripae, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 229: Antemnae, Verg. A. 7, 631: carinae, Luc. 3, 514; 4, 226.
Of a city: patriae imago turrigero canos effundens vertice crines, Luc. 1, 188.
- II. Tur-rĭgĕra, ae, adj. f., turret-crowned, turreled, an epithet of Cybele, who was represented with a crown of turrets (personifying the earth and its cities): Cybele, Ov. F. 6, 321: dea, id. ib. 4, 224: Ops, id. Tr. 2, 24.