Cytherea

[ sith-uh-ree-uh ]

/ ˌsɪθ əˈri ə /

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noun

Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.

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Words nearby Cytherea

cytapheresis, cytarabine, cytaster, -cyte, Cythera, Cytherea, Cytherean, cytidine, cytidine 5-triphosphate, cytidine diphosphate, cytidine monophosphate

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How to use Cytherea in a sentence

This shell is very like Cytherea loeta, but differs from it in its markings, as well as its outline, which is more orbicular.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Suppose you are married to Cytherea herself, and the next week attacked with a rheumatic fever.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866|Various
For there are certain spots even in this grand solitude consecrated to Cytherea and Bacchus, as he is now worshipped in champagne.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
Occasionally Venus is called Cytherea, from the island near which Greek myth represented her as having arisen from the sea.
Astronomical Lore in Chaucer|Florence M. Grimm

Peyton had looked with a stolid indifference at the dangerously fascinating, the incomprehensible, smile of Cytherea.
Cytherea|Joseph Hergesheimer

British Dictionary definitions for Cytherea

Cytherea

/ (ˌsɪθəˈriːə) /

noun

another name for Aphrodite

Derived forms of Cytherea

Cytherean, adjective

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