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Larissa

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La⋅ris⋅sa

[luh-ris-uh; Gk. lah-ree-sah]
–noun
a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece. 72,000.
Also, La⋅ri⋅sa.
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Lá·ri·sa   (lä'rē-sä)   
A city of eastern Greece near the Aegean Sea. The chief city of ancient Thessaly, it was later part of the Byzantine Empire, Serbia, and Ottoman Turkey (until 1881). Population: 124,000.
La·ris·sa   (lə-rĭs'ə)   
n.  The satellite of Neptune that is fifth in distance from the planet.

[After Larissa, daughter of Pelasgos (a member of the ruling family in Argos in Ancient Greece).]
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