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Danaide
Danaide Da"na*ide, n. [From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill with water a vessel full of holes.] (Mach.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

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- mythology, the Danaïdes (/dəˈneɪ.ɪdiːz/; Gr****: Δαναΐδες), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the Metamorphoses...
- 2.1.5.7; but according to another tradition by Hyginus (fabulae 170) a Danaid Cleopatra was the wife of Aegyptus’ son Menalces. Samson Eitrem: Kleopatra...
- Danaid is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, based on the account in the Metamorphoses of Hypermnestra, eldest of the Danaïdes. It was originally conceived...
- people decide that the Danaids deserve protection and are allowed within the walls of Argos despite Egyptian protests. A Danaid trilogy had long been ****umed...
- seems to be the first play in a tetralogy, sometimes referred to as the Danaid Tetralogy, which probably included the lost plays The Egyptians (also called...
- Hypolimnas misippus, the Danaid eggfly, mimic, or diadem, is a widespread species of nymphalid butterfly. It is well known for polymorphism and mimicry...
- Automate (crustacean), a genus of pistol shrimp Automate (mythology), a Danaid in Gr**** mythology Automation (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
- (Ancient Gr****: Φᾶρις, romanized: Pháris) was the son of Hermes and the Danaid Phylodámeia (Φυλοδάμεια), and founder of Pharae in Messene. Pharis had one...
- the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identical to Hypermnestra ("great wooing" or "high marriage"), the one Danaid who did not ********inate...
- Sterope Hyg. Fab. 1st cent. AD Harpina Diod. Sic. 1st cent. BC Eurythoe the Danaid Tzetzes 12th cent. AD Evenus Sterope Ps.-Plutarch Demonice Apollod. 1st/2nd...