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oenochoë

oenochoë is the alternative form of oenochoe.

Meaning of oenochoe

Noun

oenochoe (plural oenochoes or oenochoae)

  1. (historical) A type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.
    • These two head oenochoae were buried with the kotyle by the Brygos painter (22. 8), B.S.A. xiv, pl. xiv, and the Red Figure kylix (22. 7), ibid. pl. xiii. b.1934, Percy Neville Ure, Aryballoi & Figurines from Rhitsona in Boeotia: An Account of the Early Archaic Pottery and of the Figurines, Archaic and Classical, with Supplementary Lists of the Finds of...

Forms of oenochoë

pluraloenochoës

Questions about oenochoë

What is oenochoë the alternative form of?
Oenochoë is the alternative form of oenochoe.

Words near oenochoë in the dictionary

  1. oenochemical
  2. oenochemistry
  3. oenochoae
  4. oenochoe
  5. oenochoes
  6. oenochoë
  7. oenochoës
  8. oenoculture
  9. oenocyte
  10. oenocyteless
  11. oenocytes

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