Definition of Stheno

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the three Gorgons.

Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Gorgon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stheno

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Stevenage
Stevens
Stevens' law
Stevens' power law
Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Stevenson
Steves
Stevie
Steward
Stewart
Stewie
Sth
Stheno (current term)
Stichaeidae
Sticherus
Sticherus flabellatus
Stick
Sticks
Stictomys
Stictopelia
Stictopelia cuneata
Stieglitz
Stigmata
Stihl
Still's disease
Still's murmur
Still's murmurs

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 ..."

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