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πριονώδης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πριονώδης πριονώδες

Structure: πριονωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. like a saw

Examples

  • "τὸ δὲ κατὰ τὰσ πτέρυγασ αὐταῖσ πεποίκιλται λευκῷ πριονώδεσιν σχήμασιν παρ’ ἄλληλα κειμένοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 71 1:7)

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

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