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ἀκανθ-ώδης

akanthodes

full of thorns, thorny

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Where it lives

Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἀκανθ-ώδης · akanth-ōdēs — LSJ

full of thorns, thorny

full of thorns, thorny, χῶρος Hdt. 1.126; τὸ ῥόδον Arist. Pr. 907a22, cf. Thphr. HP 1.5.3, etc.

2 prickly, spinous

prickly, γλῶττα Arist. HA 503a2; τρίχες ib. 490b28; of the vertebrae, spinous, ib. 516b20: Comp., ib. 516b22.

3 thorny

metaph., λόγοι ἀ. thorny arguments, Luc. DMort. 20[10].8; ἀ. βίος Suid.

In the wild

ἀκανθώδης · akanthōdēs Herodotus, Histories 1.126.1 (DIORISIS sentence 928)

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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