ataniz

أقطانيسaqṭānīs (or: awtānīs)

n. (vocalization uncertain) ʾqṭānysscallop (zool.)
  1. Aris. Anim. II 679b26: Animal vero habens duos culmos salvatur quoniam aggregat duos culmos et claudit ipsos, sicut ataniz et moez

    Kruk: فاما الذى له بابان فانه يسلم لانه يجمع البابين ويغلقها مثل الذى يسمى اقطانيس [var.: اوطانيس] ومواس

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

< Arabic < Greek κτένες, pl. of κτείς. Van Oppenraaij 1998, 282. The Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.

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