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Definition of Aphradite

Aphrodi`te, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, wife of Hephæstos and mother of Cupid; sprung from sea-foam; as queen of beauty had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.
- Wikipedia

||Aph`ro*di"te (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;.] 1. (Classic Myth.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

2. (Zoöl.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

3. (Zoöl.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • (Greek mythology): The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his genitalia into the sea
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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