The corpus record

ἔκφῠσις

ekphusis · ἡ

growing out

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Where it lives

De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἔκφῠσις · ekphysis — LSJ

growing out, forth, germination, growth, increase, manner of growth

growing out or forth: germination, Thphr. HP 8.1.5; growth, increase, Arist. PA 658b5, Diog.Oen. 28; ἐ. ἀρετῆς Pl. Lg. 777e, cf. Hierocl. in CA 24p.471M.; manner of growth, Thphr. HP 1.14.2.

II outgrowth

outgrowth, A. Fr. 252, Pl. Phdr. 251b; γενύων Opp. C. 2.497 (pl.).

2 bony projection, origin, attachment

bony projection, Hp. Art. 45; origin, attachment of muscles, nerves, etc., Gal. 8.61, al.

3 shoot, suckers, seedlings, crop of seedlings, roots

shoot, Thphr. HP 1.10.7: in pl., suckers, Gp. 12.19.1; seedlings, Thphr. HP 7.4.3 (so in sg., crop of seedlings, ib. 3.3.7); roots, Plb. 18.18.6.

In the wild

ἐκφύσεις · ekphyseis Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 151)
ἔκφυσιν · ekphysin Plato, Laws 777
ἔκφυσιν · ekphysin Plato, Phaedrus 251 (DIORISIS sentence 447)
ἐκφύσεις · ekphyseis Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2809)

Where it came from

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