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|Definition=[ῑ] (Antiph.194.15) and πῖνα, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[pinna]], a long-shaped [[bivalve]], with a silky beard or byssus, of which several species inhabit the Mediterranean, freq. mentioned as a delicacy in Com. Poets, e.g. Cratin.8, Philyll.13, cf. Arist.''HA''528a24, 547b15, Isid.Char.20, Opp. ''H.''2.187, Artem.2.14.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[pearl]], acc. pl. πίνας ''UPZ''121.9 (ii B. C.); πείνας ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''1273.10 (iii A. D.), cf. [[ἀληθινόπινος]], [[πινώτιον]], [[πινάριον]].—Written with one ν, ''UPZ''l.c., ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''l.c., and sometimes in codd., cf. Cic. ''Fin.''3.63, ''ND''2.123, Plin.''HN''9.115, 142; [[πῖνα]] Hdn.Gr.2.570, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]], Choerob. in ''An.Ox.''2.250; the spelling πινν- in this word and its derivatives is freq. in codd., but is not found in Inscrr. or Papyri.