Euterpe

3 definitions found

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

  Euterpe \Eu*ter"pe\ [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? delightful; e'y^ well
     + ? to delight.]
     1. (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over music.
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     2. (Bot.) A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant


        trees.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Euterpe
       n 1: a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical
            America [syn: {genus Euterpe}]
       2: (Greek mythology) the Muse of music (or the flute)

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

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "Euterpe":
     Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Clio,
     Erato, Helicon, Hippocrene, Melpomene, Muse, Orpheus, Parnassus,
     Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, Polymnia, Terpsichore,
     Thalia, afflatus, artistic imagination, conception,
     creative imagination, creative power, creative thought,
     esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, fire of genius, genius,
     inspiration, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, poesy,
     poetic genius, poetic imagination, sacred Nine,
     shaping imagination, the Muses, the Nine, tuneful Nine