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melandrus · ὁ
a large kind of tunny
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μελᾰν-δρῡς · melan-drys — LSJ
a large kind of tunny, Pamphil. ap. Ath. 3.121b:—hence μελάνδρυα (sc. τεμάχη), τά, cheap cuts of tunny, Xenocr. ap. Orib. 2.58.146 (said to resemble black oak-roots, cf. Plin. HN 9.48); and μελανδρύαι (sc. τόμοι), οἱ, Ath. l.c., 7.315e.
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