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φυκιόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυκιόεις φυκιόεσσα φυκιόεν

Structure: φυκιοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. full of sea-weed, weedy

Examples

  • ἐγγύθι δ’ αὐτοῖν κεῖτο τὰ ταῖν χειροῖν ἀθλήματα, τοὶ καλαθίσκοι, τοὶ κάλαμοι, τἄγκιστρα τὰ φυκιόεντα δέλητα ὁρμιαὶ κύρτοι τε καὶ ἐκ σχοίνων λαβύρινθοι, μήρινθοι κώπα τε γέρων τ’ ἐπ’ ἐρείσμασι λέμβοσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)

Synonyms

  1. full of sea-weed

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

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