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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

And lo, losing them straightway with the former, he went off empty-handed, helpless, and noticed not the approach of Cypris.

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

And in the same way among the Ostracoda, the Cypridinae, which I find possess a heart, place themselves side by side with Cypris and Cythere which have no such organ.—Or to the respiratory apparatus?

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz