astaroz

أبيبطرونabībiṭrūn (or: asṭrūn)

n. (vocalization uncertain) ʾbybṭrwn – epipetron (a kind of rock plant) (bot.)

  1. Aris. Anim. II 681a23: sicut animalia quae exeunt ab arboribus quae dicuntur barneteoz, et dicuntur Graece astaroz

    Kruk: مثل الحيوان الذى يخرج من الشجر الذى يسمى برناسوس وهو يسمى باليونانية ابيبطرون [var.: اسطرون]

  1. 1 Aris. Anim. II
[ The Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr. ]

< Arabic < Greek ἐπίπετρον. Van Oppenraaij 1998, 285–286 for a possible misunderstanding by the Latin translator. This sense of the Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.

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