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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

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

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

He would not love me now tho' Cypris bound Her girdle round me.

From Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Teasdale, Sara

So she said, and starting forth they came to the mighty palace of Cypris, which her husband, the halt-footed god, had built for her when first he brought her from Zeus to be his wife.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)