ἔθειρα

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A hair, poet. Noun, Hom. only in Il., and always in pl., either of a horse's mane, 8.42; or of the horsehair crest on helmets, 16.795, 19.382.    II later sg., hair of the head, Pi.I.5(4).9, A.Pers. 1062 (lyr.), E.Hel.1124 (lyr.), Theoc.5.91, etc.: also pl., h.Ven.228, A.Ch.175, E.Hel.632, Euph.23, IG3.1376, etc.; of a lion's mane, Theoc.25.244; porcupine's quills, Opp.C.3.395; a bird's feathers, ib. 123; κρόκου θυόεσσαν ἔθειραν, of the filiform stigmas of the saffron, Mosch.2.68.