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Cypris

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[sip-ris] / ˈsɪp rɪs /

noun

  1. an epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “Lady of Cyprus.”


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Cypris Materials creates structure-based colorants using what are known as self-assembling block copolymers.

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020

The new colorants come in a powdered form that Cypris Materials says can be incorporated into manufacturing processes—added to paint in an automotive spray gun, for example, or mixed into nail polish.

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020

But now chemists at a Berkeley, Calif.–based start-up called Cypris Materials say they are closing in on a way to do so.

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020

They are the remains of shells of a very minute crustacean, Cypris and Cypridea, from which the shales are known as Cyprid shales.

From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil

The hands are the hands, in both poems, of Aphrodite: the voices are respectively those of Cypris and of Urania.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe