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Fountain of Youth

noun

  1. a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.


Fountain of Youth

  1. A fountain mentioned in folk tales as capable of making people young again.


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Notes

The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth.

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