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τανύφλοιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: tanyphloios

Principal Part: τανύφλοιος τανύφλοιον

Structure: τανυφλοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: τανύω

Sense

  1. with long-stretched bark, of tall or slender growth

Examples

  • τοῦ μὲν ὑπὲκ χειρῶν ἔφυγεν τανύφλοιος ἐρινεὸς καμπτόμενος, τηλοῦ δὲ μιῇ πήδησε σὺν ὁρμῇ: (Theocritus, Idylls, 106)

Synonyms

  1. with long-stretched bark

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

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