κοτυληδών

kotyledon

any cup-shaped hollow

Appears 22 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 16
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 493a17–493b1

493a24
Book III 3
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35

511a29
511a34

Chapter 7 516a8–516b30

516a35
Book IV 3
Chapter 1 523a31–525a29

524a2
524a7

Chapter 2 525a30–527a35

527a25
Book V 2
Chapter 6 541b1–18

541b7
541b9
Book VI 1
Chapter 10 564b14–566a1

565b8
Book VII 6
Chapter 8 586a31–586b26

586a32
586a33
586b10
586b11
586b14
586b14
Generation of Animals 5
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Book II 4
Chapter 7 745b21–747a22

745b33
746a1
746a6
746a9
Book IV 1
Chapter 4 769b30–773a29

771b29
Parts of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 9 684b6–685b28

685b3

Dictionary (LSJ)

κοτυληδών, όνος, ἡ, A. any cup-shaped hollow or cavity: 1. in pl., suckers on the arms (πλεκτάναι) of the poulp or octopus, Od. 5.433, in Ep. dat. πρὸς κοτυληδονόφιν, cf. Arist. HA 524a2, PA 685b3, Thphr. HP 9.13.6, Ath. 11.479b; also on the feet of the κάραβος, Arist. HA 527a25: sg., Luc. Musc.Enc. 3. 2. in pl., cotyledons, foetal and uterine vascular connexious (in animals), Hp. Aph. 5.45, Arist. GA 745b33, al.: wrongly expld. as κοιλότητες . . ἐν αἷς τὴν ἀνατροφὴν τοῦ ἐμβρύου γίνεσθαι Diocl.Fr. 27, cf. Gal. 2.905. 3. = κοτύλη 2, socket of the hip-joint, Ar. V. 1495, Arist. HA 493a24, Milet. 6.22 (iii B. C.). 4. hollow of a cup, Nic. Al. 626. 5. plant, prob. navelwort, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Hp. Steril. 230, Nic. Th. 681, Dsc. 4.91, Gal. 12.41; another species, C. sterilis, Dsc. 4.92.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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