The corpus record

γεώδης

geodes

earth-like, earthy

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Where it lives

De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 2 · 2.56/10k
Meditations 7 · 2.41/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k

What it meant — LSJ

earth-like, earthy, with deep soil

earth-like, earthy, Pl. Phd. 81c, Hierocl. in CA Praef. p.417 M.; γ. καὶ ἄλιθον with deep soil, X. An. 6.4.5, al.; τὸ γ. Arist. GA 753a25, 782b22; τὸ -εστερον ib. 751b3; γ. φῦλον Aristid. Or. 43(1).14; ἄνθρακες -έστατοι Thphr. HP 5.9.1.

epith. of certain ζῴδια, Vett.Val. 10.11.

In the wild

γεώδη · geōdē Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 48)
γεῶδες · geōdes Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 99)
γεώδους · geōdous Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 99)
γεώδους · geōdous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1116)
Γεωδεστέραν · Geōdesteran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6442)
γεῶδες · geōdes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1651)

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Where it came from

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