guard their eggs, Silurus
guard their eggs, of the males of some fish, esp. the Silurus, Arist. HA 568b13, 621a23, al.
The corpus record
ᾠο-φῠλᾰκέω
ootokphulakeo
guard their eggs
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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