Noun

1. a magic plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe

   • 1980: So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly. — Homer, The Odyssey, tr. Walter Shrewing (Oxford 1998 p.120)

2. any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly

See also

• lepke
• pillangó
• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly