aphrodite

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A brightly colored butterfly (Argynnis aphrodite) of North America.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The Greek goddess of love and beauty, identified by the Romans with their Venus, who was originally a deity of much less importance. By one legend she is fabled (as Aphrodite Anadyomene) to have sprung from the foam of the sea. She was the personification of female grace, and from her prototype, the Phenician Astarte, represented the reproductive and germinal powers of nature.
2. n. [NL.] In zool.: A genus of chætopodous annelids, typical of the family Aphroditidæ (which see). A genus of lepidopterous insects. Hübner, 1816. A genus of bivalve mollusks. Also written Aphrodita. Isaac Lea. The species are known as sea-mice; the common sea-mouse is A. aculeata. Also written Aphrodita. See sea-mouse.
3. n. [lowercase] A variety of meerschaum. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesium.

Wiktionary

1. n. mineralogy A soft and earthy mineral of a white or yellowish color, and with a waxy lustre, found at Langbanshytta in Sweden. It is a hydrated silicate of magnesia, and resembles meerschaum.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Classic Myth.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
2. n. (Zoöl.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.
3. n. (Zoöl.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus