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Moly

/ˈməʊli/

A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.

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noun

1
A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
2
Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

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circenoun	(Greek mythology) An enchantress who turned Odysseus's men into pigs.
mophroditenoun	(slang) Hermaphrodite.
aeaeanoun	(Greek mythology) The mythical island said to be the home of Circe.
mœrænoun	Obsolete spelling of Moirae. [(Greek mythology) The Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the goddesses, who controlled every person's destiny by weaving the thread of life.]
maelidnoun	(Greek mythology) The nymph associated with an apple tree.
tmolusnoun	(mythology) A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.
ogygianoun	(Greek mythology) The island home of the nymph Calypso, where she entertained Odysseus for seven years.
eumolpusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Chione, who became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
moleknoun	Alternative form of Moloch. [An ancient Ammonite deity worshiped by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant, often depicted with the head of a bull.]
eumolpidnoun	a member of the hereditary priesthood of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece
magonianoun	(mythology) A cloud realm from which felonious aerial sailors were said to come in flying ships, according to an ancient treatise against weather magic by the Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon.
ambrosianoun	(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
methonenoun	(historical) An ancient city near present-day Methoni in Peloponnese, Greece.
polyphemusnoun	(Greek mythology) A cyclops in Homer's Odyssey.
medeanoun	(Greek mythology) An enchantress who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.
myrmidonnoun	A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity (sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc).
myrrhanoun	(medicine, archaic) myrrh
chlorisnoun	(Greek mythology) A nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.
molekhnoun	Alternative form of Moloch. [An ancient Ammonite deity worshiped by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant, often depicted with the head of a bull.]
molocknoun	A surname.