μήτρα,
__AIonic dialect μήτρη, ἡ, (μήτηρ) womb, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.24, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.108 (uncertain reading), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 91d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in plural, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 47, “Vict.” 1.30, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]: the cervix including the orifice of the womb, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 510b14. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.2 a swine's matrix, reckoned a great dainty, μήτρας τόμοις [[ 5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 1.14; μήτραν.. πωλοῦσιν, ἥδιστον κρέας 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 220; ὑπὲρ μήτρας.. ἀποθανεῖν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 193, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.733e, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.96f. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.3 metaphorically, source, origin, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.46; μῆτραι τῆς ψυχῆς 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.441. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.II core, heart-wood of trees, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.6.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II.b diseased condition of the wood, 'soft-wood', [[[prev. work] 2.7.3. ] Refs]
__A.III queen-wasp, opposed to ἐργάται, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 627b32, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]