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ὄα (A), ἡ,
A.service-tree, Sorbus domestica, Thphr., etc.: ὄα in Hsch., but codd. of Thphr. have ὄη in HP2.2.10 ; ὄα in 2.7.7 ; ὄη in 3.12.9, 3.15.4, CP3.1.4 ; οὔα in HP3.6.5.
II. its fruit was ὄον , τό, sorbapple, or service-berry, which was split and pickled for use, Pl.Smp. 190d, Dsc.1.120 :—in Pl.l.c. codd. have ὠϊά, ὠά, and in Dsc. οὖα, which latter form also occurs in Hp.Vict.2.55, Thphr.HP3.2.1, CP 2.8.2 ; “ὄη τὸ δένδρον, ἧς ὁ καρπὸς ὄα καλεῖται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν πολλῶν οὖα” Gal.12.87.
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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