shell-fish, Mactra lactea
a kind of shell-fish, prob. Mactra lactea, Arist. HA 528a23.
The corpus record
γάλαξ
galax · ἡ
shell-fish
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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.