Sense

1. anything twined or wreathed, a coil, wreath, spire, a wreath
2. the meshes, web, tortuous

Examples

• λοχῶντά τε γὰρ ἐπιτηρεῖ καὶ ἀντίον αὐτῷ ὁρᾷ ἐκκλίνουσα τὴν ὁρμήν, ὡς μὴ ἁλίσκοιτο σαγηνευθεῖσα καὶ περιπεσοῦσα ταῖς τοῦ θηρίου πλεκτάναις, τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἀνδρίαν καὶ τὴν ἀλκὴν αὐτῆς οὐχ ἡμᾶς χρὴ λέγειν, ἀλλ ὃς μεγαλοφωνότατος τῶν ποιητῶν Ὅμηρος: (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 5:2)
• θυμιαμάτων δ αὖραι διαψαίρουσι πλεκτάνην καπνοῦ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode4)
• καὶ πλεκτάνην στιφρὰν σφόδρ, ἐπὶ τούτοις τέ που αἰσχυνόμενον ἧπαρ καπρίσκου σκατοφάγου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 70 1:1)
• καὶ χαίρουσι δὲ τῶν φυτῶν ταῖς ἐλαίαις καὶ πολλάκις εὑρίσκονται ταῖς πλεκτάναις περιειληφότες τὸ στέλεχος. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1035)
• λέγεται δ αὐτῶν τὸν ἄρρενα ἕλκειν αἰδοιῶδές τι ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πλεκτανῶν ἐν ᾗ αἱ δύο μεγάλαι κοτυληδόνες εἰσίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1041)
• "διαφέρει δὲ ὁ ἄρρην τῆς θηλείας τῷ τε τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχειν προμηκεστέραν καὶ τὸ καλούμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἁλιέων αἰδοῖον ἔχειν ἐν τῇ πλεκτάνῃ, ἐπῳάζει δὲ ὅταν τέκῃ: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1046)

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• πλεκτάνας (14)
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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.