Lewis & Short

nŭcĕus, a, um, adj. [nux], of a nut-tree: fibulae unde fiant, aridae iligneae, ulmeae, nuceae, ficulneae, etc., Cato, R. R. 31; id. ap. Plin. 16, 39, 75, § 193: virga nucea, Hier. Ep. 53, n. 8.