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vanessa

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun vanessa has 1 sense

vanessa(n = noun.animal) genus vanessa - painted beauty and red admiral; Array

is a kind of arthropod genus

is a member of family nymphalidae, nymphalidae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

vanessa, n. [Probably from Swift's poem of Cadenus and Vanessa. See Vanessa, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.].

Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

vanessa, n. any butterfly of the genus Vanessa, including the red admiral and the painted lady.

Etymology

mod.L

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