doris
doris Lexical Profile
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• noun
In Greek mythology, an Oceanid sea nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Nereus, and mother of the fifty Nereids.
"Ancient mariners often invoked Doris and her daughters for safe passage across the Aegean Sea."
A small, mountainous historical district in central Greece, located between Mount Oeta and Mount Parnassus, traditionally regarded as the homeland of the Dorian Greeks.
Any marine gastropod mollusk belonging to the genus Doris or family Dorididae, comprising shell-less sea slugs (nudibranchs) with a flattened body and a feathery gill plume on the back.
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Latin Doris, borrowed from Ancient Greek Dōrís, literally meaning 'a Dorian woman', which in Greek mythology was the name of an Oceanid sea nymph who married Nereus and bore the fifty Nereids.