PANDORA

I. panˈdōrə, paan-, -dȯrə noun

also pan·dore ˈpanˌdō(ə)r

( -s )

Etymology: pandora from Italian pandora, pandura, from Late Latin pandura, pandurium three-stringed lute; pandore from French, from Late Latin pandura, pandurium — more at pandura

1. : bandore

2. : pandura 2

II. noun

Etymology: New Latin, after Pandora (from Latin, from Greek Pandōra ), the beautiful and gifted first woman of Greek mythology

1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Pandoridae) of marine bivalve mollusks of the suborder Anatinacea with largely united siphons, thin equivalent shell, and tongue-shaped foot

2. -s : any mollusk of the genus Pandora or the family Pandoridae