The corpus record

ἀκρό-δρυα

akrodrua · τά

fruits grown on upper branches of trees

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Where it lives

Canticum 3 · 15.42/10k
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 1 · 5/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant

ἀκρό-δρυα · akro-drya — LSJ

fruits grown on upper branches of trees, hard-shelled fruits, fruits

fruits grown on upper branches of trees, esp. hard-shelled fruits, opp. ὀπώρα, Hp. Aff. 61, Arist. HA 606b2, cf. Gp. 10.74.2, Ath. 2.52a; also, fruits generally, Glaucides ap.eund. 3.81a, Arist. Pr. 930b26, PPetr. 3p.196 (iii B. C.), PAvrom. 1 A 13 (i B. C.), Plu. Alex. 23; μάζῃ καὶ τοῖς ἀ. ἀρκούμενοι Epicur. Fr. 466.

2 trees which produce such fruits, fruit-trees

trees which produce such fruits, Pl. Criti. 115b, X. Oec. 19.12, Thphr. CP 6.11.2; φυτὰ ἀκροδρύων D. 53.15:—fruit-trees in general (incl. vine and olive), Thphr. HP 4.4.11. (Sg. in AP 9.555 (Crin.), Ath. 2.49e; cf. ἀκρόδρυον· πλῆρες μέτρον (Tarent.), Hsch.)

In the wild

ἀκροδρύων · akrodryōn Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 15 (DIORISIS sentence 39)
ἀκροδρύων · akrodryōn Plato, Critias 115
ἀκροδρύων · akrodryōn Septuaginta, Canticum 4
ἀκροδρύων · akrodryōn Septuaginta, Canticum 4
ἀκρόδρυα · akrodrya Septuaginta, Canticum 7
ἀκροδρύων · akrodryōn Septuaginta, Machabaeorum I 11

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