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Papilio polyxenes or asterias
Papilio Pa*pil"i*o, n. [L., a butterfly.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of butterflies. Note: Formerly it included numerous species which are now placed in other genera. By many writers it is now restricted to the swallow-tailed butterflies, like Papilio polyxenes, or asterias, and related species.

Meaning of Polyxene from wikipedia

- fragments remain. Apart from these classical dramas, there are: Achille et Polyxène, an opera begun by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who died from a conducting injury...
- Papilio polyxenes, the (eastern) black swallowtail, American swallowtail or parsnip swallowtail, is a butterfly found throughout much of North America...
- Polyxène et Pirrhus (Polyxena and Pyrrhus) is an opera by the French composer Pascal Coll****e, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris...
- Achille et Polyxène (Achilles and Polyxena) is a tragédie lyrique containing a prologue and five acts based on Virgil's Aeneid with a French libretto by...
- Princess Caroline of N****au-Usingen (German: Prinzessin Karoline Polyxena von N****au-Usingen; 4 April 1762 – 17 August 1823) was the elder daughter of...
- Princess Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (Polyxena Christina Johanna; 21 September 1706 – 13 January 1735) was the second wife of Charles Emmanuel...
- Virginie Polyxène Augustine Philippe Dallemagne, a French miniature painter, whose maiden name was Decagny, was a native of Beauvais. She was a pupil of...
- (1682) Phaëthon (1683) Amadis (1684) Roland (1685) Armide (1686) Achille et Polyxène (1687, completed by Pascal Coll****e) Orphée (1690) (by Louis and Jean-Baptiste...
- (1868–1940); married Princess Margaret of Prussia and had issue. Princess Marie-Polyxene of Hesse (1872–1882); died at age 10 of osteomyelitis. Princess Sybille...
- Phoenix Phrixus Phryges (Phrygians) Phthiôtides Poimenes (The Shepherds) Polyxene Priam Procris Rhizotomoi (The Root-Cutters) Salmoneus Sinon Sisyphus Skyrioi...