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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Laridae .
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Examples
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Besides this, the gods will be seuere reuengers of such an insolencie, for the companions of _Vlysses_ had been preserued from drowning and shipwracke, if they had not stolne _Apollos_ cattell kept by _Phaetusa_ and hir sister _Lampetia_.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Greeks saw in the same natural phenomena the white flocks of Apollo guarded by Phaetusa and Lampetia.
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