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1.
Also called dragon's mouth, swamp pink. an orchid, Arethusa bulbosa, of eastern North America, having a solitary pink flower with a blotched, fringed lip: now rare.
2.
(initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a nymph who was changed into a spring to save her when she was being pursued by the river god Alpheus.
Origin:
1810–20; (< Neo-Latin ) < Greek Aréthousa
1810–20; (< Neo-Latin ) < Greek Aréthousa
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Arethusa
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Arethusa
in Greek mythology, a nymph who gave her name to a spring in Elis and to another on the island of Ortygia, near Syracuse
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