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apol·lo I. \əˈpä(ˌ)lō\ noun (-s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: after Apollo, Graeco-Roman god of manly beauty, of poetry and music, and of the wisdom of oracles, from Latin, from Greek Apollōn 1. : a man of graceful beauty especially when young 2. or apollo butterfly [apollo, New Latin, specific epithet of Parnassius apollo, after Apollo, the god] : a European alpine butterfly (Parnassius apollo), largely white with eyelike markings; also : a related but darker butterfly (P. mnemosyne) II. noun Usage: usually capitalized, often attributive Etymology: from Apollo, an asteroid of this class : any of a class of asteroids having orbits that extend from inside to beyond Earth's orbit — compare amor herein |