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πλεκτα?́ν-η , ἡ, (πλέκω)
A.anything twined or wreathed, coil, wreath, “ὄφεων πλεκτάναισι περίδρομον κύτος” Id.Th.495; flame-wreath, Id.Fr.281.3; π. καπνοῦ wreath of smoke, Ar.Av. 1717.
II. pl., arms of the poulp or octopus, tentacles, Alex.187.2, Eub.150.7, Diph.34, Arist.HA524b1, PA685b4, Thphr.HP8.8.4,9.13.6; of the “ναυτίλος” 11, Arist.HA622b10; also of the antennae of the καρίς, Dsc.4.77.
III. pl., meshes of a spider's web, Luc.Musc.Enc. 5: metaph., “αἱ τῶν λόγων π.” Id.Vit.Auct.22.
IV. Medic., mastoid growth in the uterus, Diocl.Fr.27, Eudem. and Praxag. ap. Gal.2.890.
2. Fallopian tubes, Ruf.Onom.194.
3. plexus of veins, Hp.Oss.14.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 495
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1717
    • Lucian, Muscae Encomium, 5
    • Lucian, Vitarum auctio, 22
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