Egyptian goose, Chenalopex aegyptiaca
Egyptian goose, Chenalopex aegyptiaca, Hdt. 2.72, Ar. Av. 1295, Arist. HA 593b22, Herod. 4.31.
The corpus record
χηνᾰλώπ-ηξ
chenalopex · ὁ
Egyptian goose, Chenalopex aegyptiaca
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χηναλώπεκας · chēnalōpekas Herodotus, Histories 2.72.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2055)
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.