ἔγκυος
ον
A.
= ἐγκύμων, Hdt. 1.5, 6.131, Hp. Aph. 5.42, etc.; πῶλος ἡσυχίης ἔγκυος, of the Trojan horse, AP 9.156 (Antiphil.); γαστρὸς ἀπωσαμέναν μόρον ἔγκυον, of one dying in child-birth, Epigr Gr. 238 (Smyrna), cf. IG 12(7).301 (Amorgos).
2.
of plants, Arist. HA 595b27.
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