MENIPPE

Meaning of MENIPPE in English

/meuh nip"ee/ , n. Class. Myth.

a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

MENIPPE — [Greek] The daughter of Orion, and sister of Metioche. Both sisters were endowed by Aphrodite with great beauty, and equaled …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
STONE CRAB — noun Date: 1709 a large brownish edible crab ( Menippe mercenaria of the family Xanthidae) found on the southern coast …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STONE CRAB — noun 1. : a large edible crab ( Menippe mercenaria ) found on the southern coast of the United States …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STONE CRAB — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STONE CRAB — Date: 1709 : a large brownish edible crab ( Menippe mercenaria of the family Xanthidae) found on the southern coast …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STONE CRAB — [stone crab] n (1709): a large brownish edible crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the U.S. and …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
METIOCHE — [Greek] One of the two daughters of Orion. She voluntarily sacrificed herself to avert a plague. See: Menippe.
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