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urania
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Urania \U*ra"ni*a\, n. [L., from Gr. ?, i. e., the Heavenly, fr.
? heavenly, fr. ? heaven.]
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1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by
Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
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2. (Zool.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native
of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored
and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them
to closely resemble butterflies.
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