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Definition of URANIA

Urania
Urania U*ra"ni*a, n. [L., from Gr. ?, i. e., the Heavenly, fr. ? heavenly, fr. ? heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

Meaning of URANIA from wikipedia

- Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and comp****. The muse Urania is sometimes confused with Aphrodite Urania...
- Urânia is a muni****lity in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a po****tion of 9,120 inhabitants and an area of 208.9 km². Urânia belongs to...
- Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Gr****: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Gr**** goddess Aphrodite...
- Look up Urania, urania, or Uránia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urania is a muse in Gr**** mythology. Urania may also refer to: Urania, daughter...
- Urania is a public educational institute and observatory in Vienna, Austria. Urania Observatory (German: Urania Sternwarte) was built in 1909 according...
- Urania is a genus of colorful, dayflying moths in the family Uraniidae, native to warmer parts of the Americas. Their larvae feed on Omphalea. The genus...
- 30 Urania is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by English astronomer John Russell Hind on July 22, 1854. It was his last asteroid discovery...
- The Urania Award (known in Italian as the Premio Urania) is an annual literary competition run by the Italian magazine Urania for contemporary Italian...
- Urania fulgens, the urania swallowtail moth or green page moth, is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. The species was first described by Francis...
- mythology, Urania (/jʊəˈreɪniə/ yoor-AY-nee-ə; Ancient Gr****: Οὐρανία or Οὐρανίη Ouranía means 'heavenly') may refer to the following divinities: Urania, the...