Danaus
noun
a ruler of Argos who ordered his 50 daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night.
Danaus
American
[dan-ay-uhs]
/ ˈdæn eɪ əs /
noun
Classical Mythology.
Danaüs
British
/ ˈdænɪəs /
noun
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To be clear, most of the large, orange-and-black butterflies known as Danaus plexippus are doing just fine.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 4, 2023
Danaus plexippus is also native throughout the rest of the Americas, with stable populations found in Florida, through the entirety of Central America and the Caribbean, and as far south as Venezuela.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2022
Fish and Wildlife Service to list the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, as a threatened species to give it more habitat protection.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2020
The fall journey takes the monarch, Danaus plexippus, thousands of kilometers south to the mountains of Mexico for the winter.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 1, 2014
In the meantime the fifty sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was obliged to consent to their marriage with his daughters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
There were fifty of them, all of them daughters of Danaüs, one of Io’s descendants, who dwelt by the Nile.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The Chorus consists of the daughters of Danaüs, and there are only three characters,--Danaüs, a Herald, and Pelasgus King of Argos.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
Is he not always rolling the stone of Sysiphus, gyrating on the wheel of Ixion, hankering after the waters of Tantalus, filling the sieves of the daughters of Danaüs?
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
Danaüs and Aegyptus, brothers, and descendants of Io and Epaphus, had settled near Canopus at the mouth of the Nile.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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