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Definition of Stheno
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the three Gorgons.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stheno
Literary usage of Stheno
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... colloquial powers, and his genius for portrait paint ing was of the highest
order. STHE.MC DISEASES. (See Brown, John.) Stheno ; one of the Gorgone, ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1905)
"They belong to three closely related types :— (1) Ethiopian species of the
borneensis-stheno-rouxi type,— Far south in Africa, in Bechuanaland and ..."