[The name of] a thorny plant.
*dio\s a)/nqos: futo\n a)kanqw=des.
The carnation,
Dianthus inodorus. Mentioned several times -- as a single word,
dio/sanqos -- in
Theophrastus,
Historia plantarum (
Enquiry into Plants): 6.1.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.11, 6.8.3.
The classification of it as a thorny plant (here and in
Hesychius s.v.) is a misreading of the first of these passages; woody, rather.
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