Noun: telephilon
Sample Sentences
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Sophronia sat, lost.
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In deep muse. Round her ebony chair
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Lay the cracked leaves of the telephilon. [1872, Emily E. Ford, My Recreations: Verses, New York: Hurd and Houghton, page 150:]
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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. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 231:]
Nouns inflected like telephilon
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τηλέφιλον (tēléphilon); ? from a Pre-Greek word, possibly altered to reflect τῆλε (têle, “far, afar”) + φίλον (phílon, “beloved, love”).