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vanessas

vanessas is the plural of vanessa.

Meaning of vanessa

Noun

vanessa (plural vanessas)

  1. Any butterfly of the genus Vanessa.
    • The Nymphalidae are a very extensive group, of generally strong-winged and very bright-coloured butterflies, very abundant in the tropics, and represented in our own country by our Fritillaries, our Vanessas, and our Purple-emperor.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 438

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Questions about vanessas

What is vanessas the plural of?
Vanessas is the plural of vanessa.

Words near vanessas in the dictionary

  1. vaneless
  2. vanelike
  3. vaneprim
  4. vanes
  5. vanessa
  6. vanessas
  7. vanessid
  8. vanessids
  9. vanette
  10. Vanetten
  11. Vanettens

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