ὄρχις
orchis
testicle
Appears 97 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὄρχις, ιος and εως, ὁ, Att. nom. pl. ὄρχεις, Ion. ὄρχιες, A. testicle, freq. in pl., testicles, 4.109, Aër. 4, 63.4 (anap.), etc. ; cf. ὄσχις. 2. in females, ovaries, 2.810, al. II. plant so called from the form of its root, salep, Orchis papilionacea, and O. longicruris, HP 9.18.3, 3.126. III. ὄρχις, ἡ, a kind of olive, Colum.5.8; cf. ὀρχάς (B). (Cf. Avest. arazi ‘testicles’.)
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