the first green shoot of plants in spring, ναὶ μὰ μήκωνος χλόην Archil. 108; esp. young green corn or grass, Hdt. 4.34, E. Hipp. l.c., IA 422, etc.; χλόην νέμεσθαι Id. Ba. 735; ποτὰ τὰ ἀπὸ χλοίης Hp. l.c.; opp. καρποί, Pl. Ti. 80d; χλόης γενομένης ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος, of the corn when it first springs up, X. Oec. 17.10; ἐν τῇ χ., opp. ἐν τοῖς σπέρμασιν, Thphr. CP 4.4.7, cf. HP 8.2.4; πιαίνονται βόες χλόῃ κυάμων Arist. HA 595b7.
poet., young verdure of trees, foliage, χ. ἀμπέλου E. Ba. 12, cf. Supp. 258, Ion 1435, Hel. 180 (lyr.), 1360 (lyr.).
juice of green shoots, χ. ἐλαίας IG 7.3073.162 (Lebad. ii B. C.): but σατυρίου χλόῃ is prob. f.l. for σαύρου χολῇ in Gp. 10.21.12.
vegetables, herbs, greens, Antiph. 1.5, Sotad.Com. 1.9, al.
epith. of Demeter, Verdant, from the young corn, worshipped in Attica, IG 2(2).1356.16, Semus 19, Paus. 1.22.3; at Myconos, etc., SIG 1024.11 (Myconos, iii/ii B. C.), Corn. ND 28; Δήμητρος Χλοίης ἱερόν IG 2(2).5006.4; also Χλόη alone, ib. 1358.49, Ar. Lys. 835. (Perh. cogn. with Lith. ẑélti ‘to be green, grow’, Lat. holus.)