Φλόνος
mullein
Translated by Ronald Allen13 Feb 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[no gloss]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φλόνος.
Betacode
*flo/nos.
Notes
- On this (unglossed) headword
flo/nos , a masculine noun in the nominative singular, see Dioscorides Pedanius, De materia medica 4.103.3; Etymologicum Magnum 796.28 (Kallierges); ps.-Zonaras 1813.15 (Tittmann); and LSJ s.v. It is the name of a toxic herbaceous plant, probably one of the mulleins, Verbascum sinuatum (Tutin, p. 213; Polunin, no. 1191). Alternative names for this same member of the figwort family areflo/mos, -ou, -h( (LSJ s.v. and Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.12.3) andplo/mos, -ou, -o( (LSJ s.v. and Aristotle, History of Animals 602b.31).
Adler also cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (352).
References
T.G. Tutin, et al., eds., Flora Europaea, vol. 3 (Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972
O. Polunin, Flowers of Europe, London: Oxford University Press, 1969
O. Polunin, Flowers of Europe, London: Oxford University Press, 1969
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- coding — David Whitehead
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- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen