A.head, i.e. capsule, of the poppy, Thphr.HP9.12.4, Damocr. ap. Gal.13.40, Dsc.4.63 (v.l. -ίαις), 64, Sor.1.120 (τῇ διακωδίων cod.), Ruf.Ren.Ves.1.15; imitated as an ornament of ἧλοι, IG 22.1457.14, 1544.38, al.; head, i.e.fruit, of the Nile water-lily, Nymphaea stellata, Thphr.HP4.8.10; of the Egyptian bean, Nelumbium speciosum, ib.7. [κωδύα_ acc. to Hdn.Gr.1.302, and so in Damocr. l.c., but κώδυα in Ar.Fr.117 ap.Harp.Epit., Phot., cf. sq.]
κωδύα , ἡ,
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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