παραφῠ-άς, άδος, ἡ,
(παραφύω) side-growth,
__1 in plants, sucker, off shoot, opposed to παρασπάς, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.2.4, compare 1 “Enoch” 26.1: _metaphorically_, παραφυάδι ἔοικε τοῦ ὄντος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1096a21, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.330 (_plural_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 in animals, branch of a vein, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of certain appendages in the ἀστακός, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 526a29, compare “PA” 672b27. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, of branches of a discussion, [[ 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 2.7.2, “Etymologicum Magnum” 784.28, etc.; also, τὸ πρός τι παραφυάδι ἐοικός 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.16. [ῡ in 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 80, perhaps for the sake of meter] ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]