made of tortoise-shell
made of tortoise-shell, Edict.Diocl. 16.6.
The corpus record
χελών-ινος
cheloninos
made of 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.