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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., the wife of Cephalus, Gr. [GREEK].]

(Zool.)

Any species of small moths of the genus

Procris

. The larvæ of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.

Procris

In Ancient Greek mythology, the daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and his wife Praxithea.