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κάρπασος

κάρπασος, flax, Linum usitatissimum

κάρπᾰσος, ἡ, with heterocl. pl. κάρπασα, AP 9.415.6 (Antiphil., with play on the meanings ‘sails’ and ‘clothesʼ); also κάλπᾰσος (q.v.):—
  • flax, Linum usitatissimum (or perh. L. angustifolium), D.H. 2.68, Sch. Ar. Lys. 736.
      • 2 cotton, Peripl.M.Rubr. 41 (cf. Skt. karpāsas).
    • II κάρπασον, τό, white hellebore, Veratrum album, Orph. A. 922; ὀπὸς καρπάσου Archig. ap. Gal. 12.445, Dsc. Alex. 13; sucus carpathi, Plin. HN 32.58; cf. ὀποκάρπασον, καρπησία.

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