κοτυληδών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=-όνος, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[any cup-shaped hollow]] or [[cavity]]:<br><span class="bld">1</span> in plural, [[suckers on the arms]] ([[πλεκτάναι]]) [[of the poulp]] or [[octopus]], Od.5.433, in Ep. dat. <b class="b3">πρὸς κοτυληδονόφιν</b>, cf. Arist.''HA''524a2, ''PA''685b3, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 9.13.6, Ath.11.479b; also on the feet of the [[κάραβος]], Arist.''HA''527a25: sg., Luc.''Musc.Enc.'' 3.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in plural, [[cotyledons]], foetal and uterine vascular connexious (in animals), Hp.''Aph.''5.45, Arist.''GA''745b33, al.: wrongly expld. as κοιλότητες… ἐν αἷς τὴν ἀνατροφὴν τοῦ ἐμβρύου γίνεσθαι Diocl.Fr.27, cf. Gal.2.905.<br><span class="bld">3</span> = [[κοτύλη]] 2, [[socket of the hip-joint]], Ar.''V.''1495, Arist. ''HA''493a24, ''Milet.''6.22 (iii B. C.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[hollow of a cup]], Nic.''Al.'' 626.<br><span class="bld">5</span> plant, prob. [[navelwort]], [[Cotyledon umbilicus]], Hp.''Steril.'' 230, Nic.''Th.''681, Dsc.4.91, Gal.12.41; another species, C. sterilis, Dsc.4.92.