1. oxyrhynchus - Noun
2. Oxyrhynchus - Proper noun
(ichthyology) a fish with a pointed snout
(ichthyology) Mormyrus kannume
Oxyrhynchus
A city in Egypt.
From Robert A Kraft (see link): "A fragment of a Latin parchment codex of an otherwise unknown historical text dating to about 100 CE was also found at Oxyrhynchus ( P. Oxy. 30 ; see Roberts & Skeat 28). Source: Internet
Just as some documents written in the early cursive show a mixture of majuscule and minuscule forms, so certain literary papyri of the 3rd century, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, cit., iv, pl. vi, No. 668; xi, pl. vi, No. 1,379. Source: Internet
Once the Coptic text was published, scholars recognized that an earlier Greek translation had been published from fragments of papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus in the 1890s. Source: Internet
The Oxyrhynchus papyrus indicates that Charaxus was the eldest, but that Sappho was more fond of Larichus. Source: Internet