Hesper /hesˈpər/ or Hesperus /-əs/

Venus as the evening star

Hesperian /-pēˈri-ən/ adjective

1. Western (poetic)
2. Italian (from the Greek point of view)
3. Spanish (from the Roman)
4. Of the Hesperides
5. Of the skipper butterflies

1. A westerner
2. A skipper butterfly

hesˈperid /-pər-id/ noun

1. One of the Hesperides
2. A skipper butterfly

Hesperides /-perˈi-dēz/ plural noun (Gr myth)

The sisters who guarded in their delightful gardens in the west the golden apples which Hera, on her marriage with Zeus, had received from Gaea

hesperidˈium noun (botany)

A fruit of the orange type

Hesperiidae /-īˈi-dē/ plural noun

A family of moth-like butterflies, the skippers

Hesˈperis noun

The dame's-violet genus of Cruciferae, generally fragrant in the evening

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