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The corpus record

ἄβλαστ-ος

ablastos

not growing out

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What it meant — LSJ

not growing out, not growing, not germinating, unfruitful

not growing out, of fibre, Thphr. HP 1.2.5:—also ἀβλαστ-ής, ές, not growing, ib. 2.2.8; of seeds, not germinating, 8.11.7; of places, unfruitful, ἐδάφη CP 2.4.1; τόποι Gp. 9.9.4 (Comp.): metaph., ἀ. πρὸς ἀρετήν Plu. Aud. 2.38c; πλοῦτος ἄ. Them. Or. 18.221d.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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