Cytherea
Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
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How to use Cytherea in a sentence
This shell is very like Cytherea loeta, but differs from it in its markings, as well as its outline, which is more orbicular.
Suppose you are married to Cytherea herself, and the next week attacked with a rheumatic fever.
For there are certain spots even in this grand solitude consecrated to Cytherea and Bacchus, as he is now worshipped in champagne.
The Hills and the Vale | Richard JefferiesOccasionally Venus is called Cytherea, from the island near which Greek myth represented her as having arisen from the sea.
Astronomical Lore in Chaucer | Florence M. GrimmPeyton had looked with a stolid indifference at the dangerously fascinating, the incomprehensible, smile of Cytherea.
Cytherea | Joseph Hergesheimer
British Dictionary definitions for Cytherea
/ (ˌsɪθəˈriːə) /
another name for Aphrodite
Derived forms of Cytherea
- Cytherean, adjective
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