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κρίνον [ι^], τό, heterocl. pl.
A.“κρίνεα” Hdt.2.92; dat. “κρίνεσιν” Cratin. 98, Ar.Nu.911, etc.:—white lily, Lilium candidum, Thphr.HP6.6.8, Theoc.11.56, Nic.Fr.74.27, Dsc.3.102; κ. πορφυροῦν Turk's cap lily, L. chalcedonicum, Thphr.HP6.6.3, cf. Dsc.l.c.: prov., “κρίνου γυμνότερος” Jul.Or.6.181c: hence, of a needy man, Poll.6.197, etc.: symbolic of death, v. κολοκύντη.
2. Egyptian bean, Nelumbium speciosum, Hdt.2.92.
II. kind of choral dance, Apolloph.2.
III. kind of loaf, Ath.3.114f.
IV. architectural ornament, IG11(2).161 A72 (Delos, iii B. C.).
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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