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.