ἀκρό-δρυα, τά,
properly fruits grown on upper branches of trees, especially hard-shelled fruits, opposed to ὀπώρα, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ παθῶν” 61, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 606b2, compare “Geoponica” 10.74.2, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.52a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, fruits generally, Glaucides cited in [[[same work] 3.81a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 930b26, “PPetr.” 3p.196 (3rd c.BC), “PAvrom.” 1 A 13 (1st c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 23; μάζῃ καὶ τοῖς ἀ. ἀρκούμενοι 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 466. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 trees which produce such fruits, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 115b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 19.12, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.11.2; φυτὰ ἀκροδρύων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.15] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—fruit-trees in general (including vine and olive), [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.11. (_sing._ in “Anthologia Graeca” 9.555 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.49e] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare ἀκρόδρυον· πλῆρες μέτρον (Tarentum dialect), [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus) ] Refs 5th c.AD+]