κοτυληδών
τὸ γὰρ πράττειν τοῦ λέγειν καὶ χειροτονεῖν ὕστερον ὂν τῇ τάξει, πρότερον τῇ δυνάμει καὶ κρεῖττόν ἐστιν (Demosthenes 3.15) → for action, even though posterior in the order of events to speaking and voting, is prior in importance and superior
English (LSJ)
όνος, ἡ,
A any cup-shaped hollow or cavity: 1 in pl., suckers on the arms (πλεκτάναι) of the poulp or octopus, Od.5.433, in Ep. dat. πρὸς κοτυληδονόφιν, cf. Arist.HA524a2, PA685b3, Thphr.HP9.13.6, Ath.11.479b; also on the feet of the κάραβος, Arist.HA527a25: sg., Luc.Musc.Enc. 3. 2 in pl., cotyledons, foetal and uterine vascular connexious (in animals), Hp.Aph.5.45, Arist.GA745b33, al.: wrongly expld. as κοιλότητες . . ἐν αἷς τὴν ἀνατροφὴν τοῦ ἐμβρύου γίνεσθαι Diocl.Fr.27, cf. Gal.2.905. 3 = κοτύλη 2, socket of the hip-joint, Ar.V.1495, Arist. HA493a24, Milet.6.22 (iii B. C.). 4 hollow of a cup, Nic.Al. 626. 5 plant, prob. navelwort, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Hp.Steril. 230, Nic.Th.681, Dsc.4.91, Gal.12.41; another species, C. sterilis, Dsc.4.92.
