cassiope
[kuh-sahy-uh-pee]
- (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- (initial capital letter) Cassiopeia.
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Origin of cassiope
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He landed at Cassiope, a town in the northern part of the island of Corcyra.
NeroJacob Abbott
For all practical purposes, however, words like Cassiope are quadrisyllables.
OpusculaRobert Gordon Latham
Of these cassiope is at once the commonest and the most beautiful and influential.
Travels in AlaskaJohn Muir
Of these, Cassiope tetragona is far the most influential and beautiful.
Travels in AlaskaJohn Muir
Cassiope was a port of Epirus, not far from Nicopolis, where Epictetus taught.
The Teaching of EpictetusEpictetus