A.the root of which smells of wine or was used to flavour wine ; but in the best Mss. of Thphr.HP 9.19.1 it is ὀνοθήρας, as in Dsc.4.117 and Gal.12.89 ; called also ὀνάγρα , Gal.l.c., and ὀνόθουρις ibid., Aët.15.15 ; cf. onothuris, Plin. HN24.167.
οἰνο-θήρας , ου, ὁ, a plant
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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