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φα^λα_ρίς , Ion. φαληρίς , ίδος, ἡ:—
A.coot, Fulica atra, so called from its bald white head, Ar.Ach.875, Av.565 (anap., in Ion. form), Arist. HA593b16 (v.l. φαληρίς), Fr.350, Alex.Mynd. ap. Ath.9.395e; φαληρίδες ταριχηραί Cleomenesap.eund.9.393c.
II. canary grass, Phalaris nodosa, Dsc.3.142 (both forms in codd.); phaleri (sic), Plin. HN27.126.
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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