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oenochoes

oenochoes is the plural 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...

Questions about oenochoes

What is oenochoes the plural of?
Oenochoes is the plural of oenochoe.

Words near oenochoes in the dictionary

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

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