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English: Erich G. Vallery, USDA Forest Service - SRS-4552, United States parasitized by the fungus Cordyceps, order Clavicipitales (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

καυλο-μύκητες , οἱ,   A. stalk-fungi, burlesque name in Luc.VH1.16.

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καυλός , ὁ,

A. stem of a plant (opp. στέλεχος, of trees, Thphr.HP1.1.9), Epich.158, Ar.Eq.824 (anap.); κ. σιλφίου ib.894; ἢ σίλφιον ἢ ὀπὸς “ἢ κ.”Hp.Acut.37; called “ἐκ Κυρήνης κ.” Hermipp.63.4; “κ. ἐκ Καρχηδόνος” Eub.19; “κ. Λίβυς” Antiph.217.13, cf. 325; “κράμβης” BGU1118.12(pl., i B.C.), cf. Dsc.2.120, Archig. ap. Gal.13.331.

2. Hom. (only in Il.), spear-shaft, “ἐν καυλῷ ἐάγη δολιχὸν δόρυ” Il.13.162; κατεκλάσθη δ᾽ ἐνὶ καυλῷ ἔγχος ib.608; once of a sword-hilt, “ἀμφὶ δὲ καυλὸν φάσγανον ἐρραίσθη” 16.338.

3. of various tubular structures in animals, πτεροῦ καυλός quill part of a feather, Pl.Phdr.251b, cf. Arist. HA504a31;neck of the bladder, ib.497a20; duct of the penis, ib. 510a26; cervix uteri, ib.510b11; ovipositor of locusts, ib.555b21.

4. shank of a fish-hook, Opp.H.3.148.

II. vegetable of the cabbage kind, cole, kail, cauliflower, Alex.127.5, Anaxandr.41.58 (pl.), Eub.7.3 (pl.).

III. membrum virile, Hp.Int.14, D.S.32.11, Gal.UP14.12, Ruf.Onom.101, etc. (Cf. Lat.caulus, caulis, Lith. kaáulas 'bone'.)

μύκης [υ^], ητος (but Ion. gen. -εω Archil.47, acc. -ην Hecat.22 J. (-ῆν codd.), Nic.Fr.72.7; Dor. and Att. nom. pl.

A. “μύκαι” Epich.155, Thphr.Sign.42, Diocl.Fr.119; acc. pl. “μύκας” PSI6.620.31 (iii B. C.), censured by Phryn.178; dat. pl. “τοῖς μύκαις”Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.2.62c), ὁ, mushroom or other fungus, Epich. l. c., Antiph.188, 226.4, 227.11, Ephipp.27, Polioch.2.4,Thphr.HP1.1.11, PSIl.c., Nic.Al.525, Dsc. 4.82, Paus.2.16.3.

II. any knobbed round body, shaped like a mushroom,

1. chape or cap at the end of a scabbard, Hecat. l.c., Hdt.3.64, Paus. l.c.

2. membrum virile, Archil. l.c., Hsch.

3. fleshy excrescence, such as forms on wounds, Hp.Morb.2.50, Gal.17(1).703.

b. excrescence on trees, Thphr.HP4.14.3.

4. stump of an olive cut down, IG2.1055.43.

5. snuff of a lamp-wick, Ar.V.262, Thphr.Sign. l.c., Arat.976, Call.Fr.47, AP5.262 (Agath.).

6. μύκαι οἷς τὰ ἱμάτια βάπτουσι, dub. sens. in Zopyr. ap. Orib.14.62.1.— Fem. only in Epich.l.c. (where however οἷον αἰμύκαι is prob. cj.) and Thphr.Sign.l.c. (Prob. cogn. with “μύξα” A.）