βόστρῠχ-ος, ὁ,
irregular plural βόστρυχα in [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.259 (Paul. Sil.), 6.71 ([prev. author])] Refs]: accusative plural βόστρυχας [[ Dionysius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “de Avibus” 2.7 ] Refs]:—curl, lock of hair, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 58, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 178, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 536, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]: in singular collectively, hair, ἀμπέτασον β. ὤμοις [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 202 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 poetry, anything twisted or wreathed, πυρὸς ἀμφήκης β. thunderbolt, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1044 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in plural, tendrils, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 metaphorically, ornament, τῆς ἠπείρου, of Smyrna, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 18(20).9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of Nicomedia, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 61.12 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἑστίας χρυσοῦς β., of a son, [[ 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 23.7. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II winged insect, perhaps male of the glow-worm, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 551b26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 in plural, sea-wecd, [[ Dionysius Epigrammaticus “Av.” [same place] ] Refs]