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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”). Roman, alt-of, alternative
2. 2
   A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.
3. 3
   A town in Whitsunday Region, Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.

Synonyms

All synonyms

agricultureamoraphroditeapolloaresathena

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