τραφερός
ά, όν, Subst., ἡ
A.
well-fed, fat, οἱ τραφεροί or τὰ τραφερά the fat ones, i. e. fishes, Theoc. 21.44.
II.
Hom. uses τραφερή (sc. γῆ), ἡ, as Subst., dry land, ἐπὶ τραφερήν τε καὶ ὑγρήν Il. 14.308, Od. 20.98, h.Cer. 43:—in later Poets as Adj., νομὸς τ. Arat. 1027; κέλευθος ὑγρή τε τ. τε A.R. 2.545; τ. ἄρουρα Opp. H. 1.204; ἤθεα τ. tracts of dry land, ib.5.334. (In this sense it is from τρέφω (A) 1, make thick.)