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φυλλ-άς , άδος, ἡ, as Adj.,
A.leafy, “λόχμη” Nonn.D.21.340.
II. usu. as Subst., heap, bed, or litter of leaves, “φυλλάδα ἐπιβαλών” Hdt.8.24; “φ. στιπτή” S.Ph.33, cf. Bion 1.69, A.R.1.1183, etc.
2. foliage, “ῥίζης γὰρ οὔσης φ. ἵκετ᾽” A.Ag.966; φ. μυριόκαρπος, of a thick grove, S.OC676 (lyr.); “τεμενία φ.” Id.Tr.754; “φ. Παρνασία” E.Andr.1100: metaph., “φυλλάδος ἤδη κατακαρφομένης” A.Ag.79 (anap.); also, leafy branch, E.Supp.32, Ar.V.398 (anap.); “κλισίαι ἐκ φυλλάδος” D.S.19.22, cf. Str.16.4.13, etc.: pl., Gp.3.10.6, etc.
3. salad, Mnesim.4.31 (anap.), Diphil. 18.4, cf. Poll.6.71.
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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