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The corpus record

χελλών

chellon · ὁ

mullet, Mugil chelo

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What it meant — LSJ

mullet, Mugil chelo

a kind of mullet, Mugil chelo, Arist. HA 543b15, 570b2, 591a23, Fr. 318, Hices. ap. Ath. 7.306e; χελλών (χελμών cod.)· ἰχθῦς ποιός, Hsch.

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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