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μεγαλόδενδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλόδενδρος μεγαλόδενδρον

Structure: μεγαλοδενδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/ndron

Sense

  1. full of large trees

Examples

  • ἐν ἀριστερᾷ μὲν οὖν ἐστι τοῖσ ἀναπλέουσι τὰ ὄρη ταῦτα, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ πεδίον μέγα καὶ ὑψηλὸν καὶ εὔκαρπον καὶ μεγαλόδενδρον καὶ εὔβοτον. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 6:9)
  • κατὰ μέροσ δὲ ἀπὸ Κάλπησ ἀρξαμένοισ ῥάχισ ἐστὶν ὀρεινὴ τῆσ Βαστητανίασ καὶ τῶν Ὠρητανῶν δασεῖαν ὕλην ἔχουσα καὶ μεγαλόδενδρον, διορίζουσα τὴν παραλίαν ἀπὸ τῆσ μεσογαίασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 4:1)
  • ἔχουσι δ’ ὕλην ἐνταῦθα παμπόλλην ναυπηγήσιμον καὶ μεγαλόδενδρον, ὥστ’ ἐνίων τοῦ πάχουσ τὴν διάμετρον ὀκτὼ ποδῶν εὑρίσκεσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 4:6)
  • εἰσ δὲ τὴν ἐντὸσ θάλατταν πλέουσιν ἀπὸ Λυγγὸσ πόλισ ἐστὶ Ζῆλισ καὶ Τίγα, εἶτα τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀδελφῶν μνήματα καὶ τὸ ὑπερκείμενον ὄροσ ὄνομα Ἀβίλη πολύθηρον καὶ μεγαλόδενδρον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. full of large trees

Related

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

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