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Definition of Urania

Urania
Urania U*ra"ni*a, n. [L., from Gr. ?, i. e., the Heavenly, fr. ? heavenly, fr. ? heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

Meaning of Urania from wikipedia

- Urania (/jʊəˈreɪniə/ yoor-AY-nee-ə; Ancient Gr****: Οὐρανία, romanized: Ouranía; modern Gr**** shortened name Ράνια Ránia; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven")...
- Urânia is a muni****lity in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a po****tion of 9,120 inhabitants and an area of 208.9 km². Urânia belongs to...
- Urania is a genus of colorful, dayflying moths in the family Uraniidae, native to warmer parts of the Americas. Their larvae feed on Omphalea. The genus...
- The Urania Award (known in Italian as the Premio Urania) is an annual literary competition run by the Italian magazine Urania for contemporary Italian...
- up Urania, urania, or Uránia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urania is a muse in Gr**** mythology. Urania may also refer to: Aphrodite Urania, a title...
- Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Gr****: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Gr**** goddess Aphrodite...
- Urania is a public educational institute and observatory in Vienna, Austria. Urania Observatory (German: Urania Sternwarte) was built in 1909 according...
- Urania fulgens, the urania swallowtail moth or green page moth, is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. The species was first described by Francis...
- Comocritis uranias is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. It is found in Sri Lanka. The wingspan is about 28 mm...
- Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in the Lindenhof quarter of Zürich, Switzerland. Its name Urania refers to the muse of astronomy in Gr**** mythology...