The corpus record

ὑλο-μᾰνέω

ulomaneo

run to wood

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What it meant — LSJ

run to wood, overgrown with thick wood

run to wood, of the vine (cf. τραγάω II), Thphr. CP 3.1.5, Sm. Ho. 10.1, Gp. 5.40.1, etc.; πεδία ὑλομανοῦντα overgrown with thick wood, Str. 14.6.5: cf. φυλλομανέω.

2 run riot

metaph. of language, etc., run riot, ὑ. τὸ μυθῶδες Plu. Aud.poet. 2.15e.

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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