leguminous fruits, pulse, plucked by the hand
leguminous fruits, pulse, Hp. Nat.Puer. 12, Arist. Mete. 389a15, GA 750a24, Thphr. HP 8.2.2, CP 4.7.2, al.; gen. χεδρόπων or χεδροπῶν, Arist. PA 653a24, GA 752a21.—Acc. sg. χέδροπα occurs in Python 1.12 (prob.), Porph. Abst. 2.6, and nom. χέδροψ Hsch., and τοὺς καρποὺς τοὺς χέδροπας (v.l. χεδροπούς) is found in Arist. HA 594b7: but the accent seems to point to sg. χεδροπός. (Perh. a compd. of χείρ, δρέπω, as if χερ-δροπά, plucked by the hand, cf. χειροδρόποι δʼ ἵνα φῶτες ἄτερ δρεπάνοιο λέγονται