Calliope: Definition and part of speech

Calliope

  1. n. A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
  2. n. The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
  3. n. One of the asteroids. See Solar.
  4. n. A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

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.

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