The corpus record

θηλῠ-γόνος

thelugonos

generating females

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What it meant — LSJ

generating females

generating females, Hp. Steril. 230; καὶ γυναῖκες καὶ ἄνδρες . . θ. εἰσίν Arist. HA 585b13; of animals, ib. 573b32, GA 766b32.

II to promote the generation of females, dog-mercury, Mercurialis perennis, a variety of φύλλον

θηλυγόνον, τό, a plant supposed to promote the generation of females, dog-mercury, Mercurialis perennis, Thphr. HP 9.18.5; a variety of φύλλον, Dsc. 3.125;= λινόζωστις θήλεια, Ps.-Dsc. 4.189.

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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