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penelope

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Penelope \Pe*nel"o*pe\ (p[-e]*n[e^]l"[-o]*p[=e]), prop. n.
   [From. L. Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, the hero of the
   Odyssey, Gr. Phnelo`ph.] (Zool.)
   A genus of curassows, including the guans.
   [1913 Webster]

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