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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Euterpe \Eu*ter"pe\ [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? delightful; e'y^ well + ? to delight.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over music.
2. (Bot.) A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Euterpe
noun
1: a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America [syn: {genus Euterpe}]
2: (Greek mythology) the Muse of music (or the flute)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "Euterpe": Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Clio, Erato, Helicon, Hippocrene, Melpomene, Muse, Orpheus, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, afflatus, artistic imagination, conception, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, fire of genius, genius, inspiration, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, sacred Nine, shaping imagination, the Muses, the Nine, tuneful Nine
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