πράσον [ᾰ], τό,
leek, Allium Porrum, [[ Batrachomyomachia 54 (variant), 5th c.BC: Chionides Comicus 7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 621, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.1.2, etc.; π. κεφαλωτόν 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.149 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πράσα τὰ κειρόμενα sliced leeks, [[ 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.67: proverbial, φύλλῳ πράσου τὸ τῶν ἐρώντων συνδέδεται βαλλάντιον “Comica Adespota” 197. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II leek-like seaweed. Posidonia oceanica, Ligurian grass-wrack, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.2, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 13.135 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also, riband-weed, Laminaria saccharina, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Cf. Latin porrum, from I.-[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] prsom).