Astarte

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Astarte \As*tar"te\, n. [Gr. ? a Ph[oe]nician goddess.] (Zool.)
     A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America
     and Europe.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Astarte
       n : a fertility goddess; counterpart of Ashtoreth and Ishtar

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "Astarte":
     Adonis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Artemis,
     Ashtoreth, Baal, Balder, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cupid, Cynthia, Demeter,
     Diana, Dionysus, Eros, Frey, Freya, Hebe, Hecate, Hekate, Hyperion,
     Isis, Kama, Love, Luna, Narcissus, Pan, Phoebe, Priapus, Selene,
     Venus, Venus de Milo, houri, peri, the Graces