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PENELOPE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)

Synonyms:

genus Penelope; Penelope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Penelope" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Holonyms ("Penelope" is a member of...):

Cracidae; family Cracidae (curassows; guans; chachalacas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

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