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Acheron
(gcide) | Acheron \Ach"e*ron\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Myth.)
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the
infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it
was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. --Shak.
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acheron
(wn) | Acheron
n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls
of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, {River
Acheron}] |
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Acherontia
(gcide) | Acherontia \Acherontia\ n.
1. 1 death's-head moth.
Syn: genus Acherontia
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Acherontia atropos
(gcide) | Death's-head \Death's"-head`\, n.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the
conventional personification of death.
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I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone
in his mouth. --Shak.
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Death's-head moth (Zool.), a very large European moth
(Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling
a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also
death's-head sphinx.
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Acherontic
(gcide) | Acherontic \Ach`e*ron"tic\, a.
Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy;
moribund.
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acheron
(wn) | Acheron
n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls
of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, {River
Acheron}] |
acheronian
(wn) | Acheronian
adj 1: dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in
Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon
those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth [syn:
Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian] |
acherontia
(wn) | Acherontia
n 1: death's-head moth [syn: Acherontia, genus Acherontia] |
acherontia atropos
(wn) | Acherontia atropos
n 1: European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a
human skull [syn: death's-head moth, {Acherontia
atropos}] |
acherontic
(wn) | Acherontic
adj 1: dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in
Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon
those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth [syn:
Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian] |
genus acherontia
(wn) | genus Acherontia
n 1: death's-head moth [syn: Acherontia, genus Acherontia] |
river acheron
(wn) | River Acheron
n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls
of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, {River
Acheron}] |
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