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Webster 1913 Edition

Penelope

‖

Pe-nel′o-pe

(pē̍-nĕl′ō̍-pē)

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[From. L.

Penelope

, the wife of

Ulysses

, the hero of the Odyssey, Gr.

Πηνελόπη

.]

(Zool.)

A genus of curassows, including the guans.