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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A king of Argos and father of the Danaides.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Danais.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the type genus of the Danaidae, including the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the Danaidae: monarch butterflies

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