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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Electra
the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

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1. (noun) Electra
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; persuaded her brother (Orestes) to avenge Agamemnon's death by helping her to kill Clytemnestra and her lover (Aegisthus)

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1. ELECTRA
an ocean nymph, the mother of Isis (q. v.).

2. ELECTRA
the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who, with her brother Orestes, avenged the death of her father on his murderers.

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