Merope

See also: merope

Translingual

Proper noun

Merope

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rutaceae – a tree of Asia and the Pacific.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Meropeidae – earwigfly, forcepfly.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μερόπη (Merópē).

Proper noun

Merope

  1. (Greek mythology) The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
  2. (Greek mythology) A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia.
  3. (astronomy) The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
  4. (rare) A female given name.
  5. (historical) A subregion of Thrace in modern Northern Greece and southern Bulgaria, in the 14th-century Balkans.

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Noun

Merope

  1. dative singular of Merop
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