lip
= χεῖλος lip, ὑπʼ ὀργῆς χελύνην ἐσθίειν Ar. V. 1083 (troch.), Com.Vet. ap. Poll. 2.89; Ion. gen. pl. χελυνέων Hsch.
2 jaw
jaw, Ael. NA 16.12.
II
= χελώνη I.2, Nic. Al. 555, 558 cod. Π, cj. in Olymp. in Mete. 116.13.
The corpus record
χελύνη
chelune · ἡ
lip, jaw
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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.