Sense

1. a guard of beehives

Examples

• πάντα περικνίξασθε, καὶ ἄγγεα κηρώσασθε, ὄφρα μελισσοσόος Πὰν ἐπικυψέλιος γεύσηται τὸ μὲν αὐτός, ὁ δὲ βλιστηρίδι χειρὶ καπνώσας βαιὴν κὔμμι λίπῃ μερίδα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 226 1:1)

Similar forms

• ἐπικυψέλιος? (1)

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