inferior tortoise-shell
Dim. of χελώνη, inferior tortoise-shell, Peripl.M.Rubr. 10.
2 tail-piece
tail-piece, of the stand of a torsion-engine, Hero Bel. 84.8.
The corpus record
χελων-άριον
chelonarion · τό
inferior tortoise-shell
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What it meant — LSJ
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.