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κρόκος , ὁ ）ἡ, Str.14.5.5),
A.saffron, Crocus sativus, Il.14.348, h.Cer. 6, Hippon.41, S.OC685 (lyr.), Cratin.98 (pl.), A.R.3.855, cf. Thphr. HP4.3.1, al., Dsc.1.26, etc.
b. κ. λευκός, C. cancellatus, Thphr.HP 7.7.4.
c. κ. ἀκανθώδης, = κνῆκος, ibid.
2. saffron (made from its stigmas), Ar.Nu.51, etc.; “κρόκου βαφάς” A.Ag.239 (lyr.); κ. Ἀραβικός Edict.Diocl.in “Ἀθηνᾶ” 18.6.
3. saffron meadow, Eust.1698.30.
4. σὺν κρόκῳ ᾠῶν yolk of egg, Alex.Trall.1.1: pl., “ᾠῶν τὰ κρόκα” Paul.Aeg.3.78.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 18.6
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 239
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.348
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 6
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 685
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.5.5
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.855
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 51
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