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helxīnē, ēs, f., = ἑλξίνη.

I. A prickly plant, otherwise unknown, Plin. 21, 16, 56, 94.—

II. A plant, otherwise called perdicium: Parietaria officinalis, Linn.; Plin. 22, 17, 19, 41.