The corpus record

χᾰρᾰκ-ίας

charakias · ὁ

of, fit for a stake, pale, palisade

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What it meant

χᾰρᾰκ-ίας · charak-ias — LSJ

of, fit for a stake, pale, palisade

of or fit for a stake, pale, or palisade, a species of κάλαμος, Thphr. HP 4.11.1, Plin. HN 16.168.

II wood spurge, Euphorbia Sibthorpii

a kind of τιθύμαλλος ἄρρην, wood spurge, Euphorbia Sibthorpii, Dsc. 4.164, Plin. HN 26.62 (χαράκης is f. l. in Hsch.).

III

a fish, Gp. 20.7.1.

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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