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chĕlўon

chĕlўon · n

the shell of the horned tortoise

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What it meant

chĕlўon — Lewis & Short

chĕlўon, i, n., = xe/luon,

I the shell of the horned tortoise, Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 173; 9, 10, 12, § 38.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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