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Meaning of telephilon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A plant used in Ancient Greece in divinatory rituals regarding matters of love or sex.

Examples

“Sophronia sat, lost. In deep muse. Round her ebony chair Lay the cracked leaves of the telephilon.”

“Theocritus, an ancient Greek poet, says that the leaf of a flower called telephion was used by the boys of Crotona as an amatory oracle. [...] Telephilon has been identified as a kind of pepper tree, or, according to some, as the poppy.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

telephobia telephone telephone alphabet telephone answering machine telephone book telephone booth

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