A.apple-tree, Pyrus malus, “μηλέαι ἀγλαόκαρποι” Od.7.115, cf. Thphr.HP3.3.1, CP2.11.6, Androt. ap. Ath.3.82c, etc.; μ. ἐαρινή is a variety, Thphr.HP2.1.3, PCair.Zen.486.2 (iii B. C.); μ. Ἀρμενική apricot, Prunus Armeniaca, Gal.6.76; μ. γλυκεῖα jenneting, Pyrus praecox, Thphr.HP4.13.2; μηλείη in Nic.Al.230, Nonn.D.12.275; ἡ Περσικὴ μ. citron, Citrus Medica, Thphr.HP1.11.4, CP1.11.1 (but, peach, Prunus persica in Gal.12.76); also called “ἡ Μηδικὴ μ.” Thphr.CP1.18.5, cf. HP1.13.4; μ. Κυδωνία quince, malus Punica, Dsc.1.115. [Disyll. in Od.24.340.]
μηλέα , ἡ, (μῆλον B)
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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