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Euterpe

American  
[yoo-tur-pee] / juˈtɜr pi /

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the Muse of music and lyric poetry.


Euterpe British  
/ juːˈtɜːpɪ /

noun

  1. Greek myth the Muse of lyric poetry and music

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Acai—pronounced ah-ssah-ee—is a blueberry-size fruit of the palm tree, Euterpe oleracea, which thrives in foodplain areas in the Amazon Basin.

From National Geographic Dec. 14, 2023

The award, a model of Euterpe, the Greek muse of music, has had the same design for 58 years but the finish and materials tend to change.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2013

When Jules Dassin adapted Euripides' Hippolytus for the screen in 1962, with Anthony Perkins as the Hippolytus character, Panos and Euterpe went to see again the play that had brought them together.

From Time Magazine Archive

Michael's mother Euterpe Boukis, a Phi Beta Kappa, was graduated from Bates twelve years after her arrival from Greece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clio was Muse of history, Urania of astronomy, Melpomene of tragedy, Thalia of comedy, Terpsichore of the dance, Calliope of epic poetry, Erato of love-poetry, Polyhymnia of songs to the gods, Euterpe of lyric poetry.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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