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n.
A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.
a.
Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
a.
Western; being in the west; occidental.
n. pl.
The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
n.
The evening; Hesperus.
n.
Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.
n.
The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
n.
A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
n.
A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
n. pl.
The garden producing the golden apples.
n.
A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
n.
One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
n.
Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
n.
A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
n. pl.
An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadae).
n.
Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
n.
Evening.
n.
A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
a. & n.
Same as 3d Hesperian.
n.
An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
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