aphrodite
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(capitalized) In Greek mythology, the ancient Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation, identified by the Romans with Venus.
"The marble statue of Aphrodite was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Agora."
A woman of exceptional, captivating physical beauty and charm.
"To thelovestruck poet, she was a modern-day Aphrodite walking through the gallery."
North American A large, tawny North American fritillary butterfly (Speyeria aphrodite) of the family Nymphalidae, having orange-brown wings marked with black spots and silver undersides.
Any marine polychaete worm of the genus Aphrodita, commonly known as a sea mouse, having a broad oval body covered in dense, iridescent bristle-like setae.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē), traditionally associated by folk etymology with ἀφρός (aphrós, meaning 'sea foam'), referencing the myth of her birth from the foam of the sea near Cyprus.
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