The corpus record

βού-πρηστις

bouprestis

poisonous beetle

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What it meant

1. βούπρηστις · bouprēstis — Beekes

βούπρηστις [adj.] ‘poisonous beetle’ (Nic.); also a plant, Bunias erucago? (Thphr.). < GRP *ETYM See Amigues RPh. 64 (1990): 89-97, who interprets it as ‘who inflames cattle’, and explains the plant name as secondary to that of the animal. — [Beekes, s.v. βούπρηστις, p. 279]

2. βού-πρηστις · bou-prēstis — LSJ

poisonous beetle

poisonous beetle, which being eaten by cattle in the grass causes them to swell up and die, Hp. Nat.Mul. 32, Arist. Fr. 376, Nic. Al. 346, Dsc. 2.61.

II hareʼs ear, Bupleurum protractum

hareʼs ear, Bupleurum protractum, Thphr. HP 7.7.3.

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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