ου (ὁ) safran bâtard ou carthame, sorte de chardon à fleur orangée, HPC. Acut. 394 ; ARSTT. H.A. 5, 19 ; TH. C.P. 1, 13, 3 ; H.P. 6, 4, 5, etc.

ἡ, Thphr. HP 6.4.5, PCair. Zen. 223.4 (iii BC), PRev. Laws (v. infr.), but ὁ Thphr. HP 1.13.3, CP 5.18.4, Dsc. (v. infr.), Gal. 6.354, al. ; — also κνήκη, ἡ, Sch. Theoc. 3.5, 7.16 codd. : — safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, Hp. Acut. 64, Vict. 2.54, Diocl. Fr. 140, Anaxandr. 41.56, Arist. HA 550b27, Thphr. HP 6.1.3, PRev. Laws 39.5, al. (iii BC), Dsc. 4.188, Asclep. ap. Gal. Nat. Fac. 1.13. κ. ἀγρία (ἄγριος Dsc. 3.93), of two kinds, Carthamus leucocaulos and blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus, Thphr. HP 6.4.5; πώγωνι θάλλων ὡς τράγος κνήκῳ χλιδᾷς you are as wanton as a goat surfeited with thistles, S. Ichn. 358 (nisi leg. κνηκῷ ΄you swagger with your yellow (cf. κνηκός) beard΄; κνικωι Pap.). (Freq. written κνίκος or κνῖκος in codd., as Arist. l.c., Thphr. CP 6.9.3, Gal. ll.cc., 11.612, etc., but always κνηκ- in Papyri, exc. S. Ichn. l.c. ; prob. named from its colour, cf. κνηκός.)

ὁ, Safflor, eine distelartige Pflanze, deren Blume als Lab gebraucht wurde, um die Milch zum Gerinnen zu bringen ; Arist. H.A. 5.19 ; Theophr. u. A.