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Vanessa   /vənˈɛsə/   Listen
Vanessa

noun
1.
Painted beauty and red admiral.  Synonym: genus Vanessa.



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Vanessa atalanta
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"Vanessa" Quotes from Famous Books



... husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour. His wealth made him welcome in Vanessa's eyes, but his code of what was right impelled him to go away and forget her, or at the most to think of her in the intervals of doing a great many other things. And although Alaric Clyde loved Vanessa, and thought he should always ...
— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)
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... or more letters may be read in some newspaper recording the writer's surprise at seeing on a sunny day during the cold season, one of our common gaily-coloured butterflies of the Vanessa group, a 'Tortoiseshell' or 'Red Admiral,' flitting about. Surprise might be greater did the observers realise that the imaginal is the normal hibernating stage for these species. Emerging from the pupa in late summer or autumn, they shelter during winter in hollow trees, under thatched ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter
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Words linked to "Vanessa" :   Vanessa Stephen, painted beauty, family Nymphalidae, red admiral, arthropod genus, Nymphalidae


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