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

  • noun The wife of Orpheus, whom he failed to rescue from the underworld when he looked back at her on their journey back to the upper world of the living and so violated the command of Hades.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of isopods, of the family Cymothoidæ, containing such as E. pulchra.
  • noun A genus of mollusks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Greek mythology A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
  • proper noun Greek mythology The name of various figures in the Greek mythology.

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

  • noun (Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus

Etymologies

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From Latin Eurydice, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη.

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