LekhoriLekhoriThe most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.
The third most distant moon of Jupiter.
An aggregation of dry fruits within a calyx which does not become fleshy, as in Alchemilla or Sanguisorba.
The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.
From Ancient Greek Ἀμάλθεια (Amáltheia).
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