The corpus record

ῥᾱχ-ός

rachos · ἡ

thorn-hedge

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Where it lives

On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

thorn-hedge, palisade, wattled fence; brushwood

thorn-hedge, S. Fr. 812 (pl.), X. Cyn. 10.7, cf. Poll. 1.225; in Hdt. l.c., ῥηχός is prob. palisade or wattled fence; brushwood, ῥαχὸς (Dor. acc. pl.) καὶ φρύγανα GDI 5027 (Crete).

2 twig, branch

generally, twig, branch, of the vine, Thphr. CP 3.7.3; of the tamarisk, Hsch., Phot., dub. in Orph. Fr. 31 ii 10.

II wild olive tree

at Troezen, wild olive tree, Paus. 2.32.10.

In the wild

ῥηχῷ · rhēchōi Herodotus, Histories 7.142.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7863)
ῥᾶχοι · rhachoi Xenophon, On Hunting 10.7 (DIORISIS sentence 443)

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.

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