A.“μᾶλα τεὰ . . χνοάοντα” Theoc.27.50: more freq. of youths, “τὴν παρειὰν χνοῶν” Luc. Bacch.2; c. acc. cogn., “χνοάοντα ἰούλους” A.R.2.779, cf. Opp.C.4.347; of the down itself, “χνοάοντες ἴουλοι” the bloom of the first down, A.R. 2.43; “ἔτι χνοάοντος ἰούλου δευόμενος” IG14.1362.1 (Rome); of fruit, σίκυον χνοάοντα a gourd with the bloom on it, v.l. for χλοάοντα (ap. Sch.Ar., Suid.) in AP6.102 (Phil.): metaph., fresh, “χνοόωσαν χάριν ὄμβρου” Tryph.343.
χνοάω , commoner form of foreg., of a girl's cheeks,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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