Lat. hibiscus,= ἀλθαία, v.l. in Ps.-Dsc. 3.146, Erot. s.v. ῥίζη ἀλθαίης; also written ἐβίσκος, q.v.
The corpus record
ἰβίσκος
ibiskos · ὁ
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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.