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πυραλίς
ίδος, ἡ
A.
bird, perh. a kind of pigeon, Arist. HA 609a18, Call. Fr. 100c4, Ael. NA 4.5; πυρραλίς, Hsch.
2.
an insect said to live in fire, Plin. HN 11.119.
II.
ἐλαῖαι πυραλλίδες, a red kind of olive, Phylotim. ap. Orib. 2.69.9.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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