different between apollo vs pythoness

English

Etymology

From Apollo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?lo?/
• Rhymes: -?l??
• Hyphenation: Apol?lo

Noun

apollo (plural apollos)

1. A very handsome young man.
2. (entomology) Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).

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Further reading

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• palolo

Italian

Etymology

From the name of the Greek god of beauty, Apollo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Apóll?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?p?l.lo/
• Rhymes: -?llo

Noun

apollo m (plural apolli)

1. A young man of great beauty, an apollo.
2. Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings)

Synonyms

• (man of great beauty): adone
• apolline

Hypernyms

• (man): uomo, essere umano
• (butterfly): farfalla

English

Etymology 1

See Pythoness.

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness
2. A female soothsayer

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Etymology 2

python +? -ess

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. A female python.
   • 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 56,

     On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.

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