Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to Helicon.
- adjective zoology Like or pertaining to the
butterflies of thegenus Heliconius.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of faun-loved Heliconian glades and blue nymph-haunted seas,
Collected Poems 2003
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Why cannot the marble-cutters procure some of the Heliconian fraternity as partners?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Near the house stands the parish-church, and also a Heliconian fountain in the disguise of a pump, of excellent water, which we tasted, but without experiencing any unusual effects.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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Heliconian imps > (Mount Helicon is the abode of the Muses; imps = offspring; hence: poets) 446 They to you, and you to them most dear:
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The Heliconian streams which are not deep, but only dark, must run dry if they cannot run clear.
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The Dickens Fellowship has been in existence in Toronto for some forty-one years and still meets during the Winter Season in the Heliconian Club, Hazelton Avenue on the third Thursday of each month.
Christmas Meeting 1945
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Courtesan_, acted at Blackfriars, "And now, my fine Heliconian gallants, and you, my worshipful friends in the middle region," and adds that the "reference to 'the middle region' makes it clear there were three" galleries.
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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She's a long-wing, but she's not a Heliconian; she's a silver-spot, but she's not an Argynnis.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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Catullus had introduced him, which would add piquancy to her letting the din of the Forum succeed the babbling of Heliconian streams.
Roads from Rome 1901
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He realised well enough that his Heliconian eggs were not as valuable as my Silver Moon eggs.
Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899
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