μελίκηρα

A. spawn of the murex, as being like a honeycomb, Arist. HA 546b19.
2. gloss on κοπρίων (v.l. for κηρίων), Gal. 19.113.
II. = μελικηρίς II, Pherecr. 25.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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