Definitions for vanessa
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Princeton's WordNet
Vanessa, genus Vanessa(noun)
painted beauty and red admiral
Wiktionary
Vanessa(ProperNoun)
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Origin: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend officially named Esther Vanhomrigh.
Webster Dictionary
Vanessa(noun)
any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped
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