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Definition of Cytherea
1. Noun. Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytherea
Literary usage of Cytherea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"After this rapid examination of the points drawn from the animals which determine M.
Deshayes to reject the genera Cytherea and ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1903)
"Cytherea kingii, Hanley. Cat. Ree. Biv. Shells, p. 106. 1842. Cytherea ...
Cytherea kingii, Cox. Observations on a Cytherea found in Bass Straits. ..."
3. An Index to the Museum Boltenianumby William Healey Dall, Joachim Friedrich Bolten by William Healey Dall, Joachim Friedrich Bolten (1915)
"Cytherea puérpera (268) 179. Cytherea ranella Lam. (244) 176. Cytherea ...
Cytherea rugosa (269) 179. Cytherea scripta (260) 178. Cytherea senilis (270) 179 ..."
4. A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with by Thomas Wyatt, A. M. Thomas Wyatt (1838)
"Cytherea. Seventy-eight species. This genus was taken from the Venus, and is
easily defined as distinct from it by having four primary teeth on one valve, ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"JULIA Cytherea: A LEGEND OF THE RENAISSANCE. ITH shadow black upon the convent
wall In fierce white light the musing Monk doth crawl ; He sees the lizards ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"After this rapid examination of the points drawn from the animals which determine M.
Deshayes to reject the genera Cytherea and ..."
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