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ἀκανθώδης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκανθώδης ἀκανθώδες

Structure: ἀκανθωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. full of thorns, thorny
  2. thorny

Examples

  • "μήποτε, φησί, τὴν κυνόσβατον λέγει διὰ τὸ ἀκανθῶδεσ καὶ τραχὺ εἶναι τὸ φυτόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 82 2:3)
  • "τὸ δὲ φύλλον ἔχει πλατὺ καὶ ἀκανθῶδεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 833)
  • "ἐστὶ δὲ τὸ δένδρον ὁ λωτὸσ οὐ μέγα, τραχὺ δὲ καὶ ἀκανθῶδεσ, ἔχει δὲ φύλλον χλωρὸν παραπλήσιον τῇ ῥάμνῳ, μικρὸν βαθύτερον καὶ πλατύτερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6254)
  • Ἔστι δὲ τὸ δένδρον ὁ λωτὸσ οὐ μέγα, τραχὺ δὲ καὶ ἀκανθῶδεσ, ἔχει δὲ φύλλον χλωρὸν παραπλήσιον τῇ ῥάμνῳ, μικρὸν βαθύτερον καὶ πλατύτερον. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 2 2:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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