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Definition of Pinax

Pinax
Pinax Pi"nax, n.; pl. Pinaces. [L., fr. Gr. ? tablet.] A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.

Meaning of Pinax from wikipedia

- the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (Gr****: πίναξ; pl.: pinakes, πίνακες, meaning 'board') is a votive tablet...
- Pinax may refer to: Pinax, a votive tablet that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or burial chamber Pinakes, a 3rd-century-BCE work by...
- Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them...
- The Ninnion Tablet, dated to approximately 370 BC, is a red clay tablet depicting the ancient Gr**** Eleusinian Mysteries (religious rites connected to...
- Chionodes pinax is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[failed verification] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from southern British...
- The Pinakes (Ancient Gr****: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξ pinax) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is po****rly...
- applied: "Canis pugnax, a Butchers Bull or Bear Dog", as an entry in his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. The designation "bull" was applied because...
- Archive. London: Robert Hardwicke. p. 306. Merret, Christopher (1666). "Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia, et Fossilia"...
- prickly species growing in Egypt, from acacis meaning "a point". In his Pinax (1623), Bauhin mentioned the Gr**** ἀκακία from Dioscorides as the origin...
- Plantarum in 1753. But as early as 1622, Gaspard Bauhin introduced in his book Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) containing...