Cytherea
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Cytherea may refer to:
- AphroditeAphroditeAphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....
or Cytherea, a goddess in Greek mythology - Cytherea (person) (born 1981), American pornographic film actress
- Cytherea (film), a lost silent film
- Calypso (orchid) or Cytherea, a genus of orchid
- Cytherea (insect), a genus of BombyliidaeBombyliidaeBombyliidae is a large family of flies with hundreds of genera, although their life cycles are not well known. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, thus are pollinators of flowers. They superficially resemble bees, thus are commonly called bee flies, and this may offer the adults some...
- Cytherea, a story collection by Joseph HergesheimerJoseph HergesheimerJoseph Hergesheimer was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.-Biography:...
See also
- Cythera (disambiguation)
- CythereanCythereanCytherean is an adjective meaning pertaining to Cythera , a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus. It is also an adjective meaning pertaining to the planet Venus.When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed...
, the adjective form
- Cytherean
- Cytherea chione or Callista chione, the smooth clam
- Cytherea multistriata or Notocallista multistriata, a marine bivalve mollusc
- Acropora cytherea, a species of coral in the genus AcroporaAcroporaAcropora is a genus of scleractinian coral in the Phylum Cnidaria. Some of its species are known as table coral, elkhorn coral and staghorn coral. There are currently 149 described species...