Xanthium Strumarium, broad-leaved burweed
a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, Xanthium Strumarium, broad-leaved burweed, Dsc. 4.136, Gal. 12.87.
II
= ξυρίς, Ps.-Dsc. 4.22.
The corpus record
ξάνθ-ιον
xanthion · τό
Xanthium Strumarium, broad-leaved burweed
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Ξάνθιον · Xanthion Herodotus, Histories 1.176.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1239)
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.