The corpus record

σαρκ-ώδης

sarkodes

fleshy, of flesh, fleshy part

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Where it lives

On Hunting 3 · 3.3/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fleshy, of flesh, fleshy part, flesh-like substance, of a full body

= σαρκοειδής, fleshy, Hp. VM 22, Aër. 19, X. Cyn. 4.1, 5.30, etc.; θεοὶ ἔναιμοι καὶ σαρκώδεες gods of flesh and blood, Hdt. 3.29; τὸ σ. the fleshy part, Arist. HA 508b33; or flesh-like substance, ib. 519b29: also of plants, σ. ἔχουσι τὸ φύλλον Thphr. HP 1.10.4, al.; of timber, ib. 5.1.5; of wine, of a full body, Ath. 1.27c.

In the wild

σαρκωδεστέροις · sarkōdesterois Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5759)
σαρκώδεες · sarkōdees Herodotus, Histories 3.29.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3071)
σαρκώδη · sarkōdē Plato, Timaeus 75 (DIORISIS sentence 707)
σαρκώδεις · sarkōdeis Xenophon, On Hunting 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 96)
σαρκώδη · sarkōdē Xenophon, On Hunting 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 96)
σαρκώδη · sarkōdē Xenophon, On Hunting 5.30 (DIORISIS sentence 214)

Where it came from

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