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τίφη , ἡ,
A.one-grained wheat, einkorn, Triticum monococcum, Arist. HA603b26 (pl.), Thphr.HP1.6.5, 8.1.1 (pl.), al., Diocl.Fr.113 (pl.), Gal.6.791, Plin.HN18.93; wrongly glossed by ὄλυρα, Hsch.
II. a kind of beetle, Ar.Ach.920,925 (cf. Sch.Rav.ad loc., Suid. s.v. θρυαλλίς).
2. = σίλφη 1, Poll.7.19, Phryn.268 (Lobeck for τίλφη, confirmed by cod. Laur.), Ael.NA8.13. (The quantity of ι is doubtful; pl. τίφαι is written in Thphr.HP8.1.1, Diocl. l.c., dat. “τιφαῖς” Arist. l.c. (v.l. στιφαῖς).)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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