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σχῖνος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχῖνος

Sense

  1. the mastich-tree
  2. its fruit
  3. a squill

Examples

  • "οὐ σχῖνοσ οὐδ’ ἀσφάραγοσ, οὐ δάφνησ κλάδοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52137)
  • γίνεται δὲ αὕτη μέγεθοσ μὲν ἡ κόκκοσ κατὰ τὴν ῥάμνον καλουμένην, φύλλα δὲ μελάντερα μὲν καὶ μαλακώτερα ἢ ἡ σχῖνοσ, τὰ μέντοι ἄλλα ἐοικότα ἔχει τῇ σχίνῳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. its fruit

  2. a squill

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

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