Helen Fenton

Aphrodite: Definition and part of speech

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Aphrodite

  1. n. A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.
  2. n. The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
  3. n. A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aphasy: Definition and part of speech

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Aphasy

  1. n. Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aphelion: Definition and part of speech

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Aphelion

  1. n. That point of a planet’s or comet’s orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.