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Doris
noun
1. (Greek mythology) wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids
• Topics: ↑Greek mythology
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Greek deity
2. a small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑region, ↑part
• Part Holonyms: ↑Greece, ↑Hellenic Republic, ↑Ellas

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\\ˈdȯrə̇s\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Doris, the daughter of Oceanus, from Latin, from Greek Dōris
: a cosmopolitan genus (the type of the family Dorididae) of the suborder Nudibranchia consisting of nudibranchs or sea slugs having a depressed body, two oral lobes, and a retractile tuft of pinnate branchiae around the anus

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/dawr"is, dohr"-, dor"-/, n.
1. an ancient region in central Greece: the earliest home of the Dorians.
2. a region in SW Asia Minor, on the coast of Caria: Dorian settlements.
/dawr"is, dohr"-, dor"-/, n.
1. Class. Myth. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
2. a female given name: from a Greek word meaning "bountiful."

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Doris /dōˈris or döˈ/
noun
A genus of nudibranchiate gastropods, shell-less molluscs with a plumy tuft of gills on the back, giving name to the family Doridˈidae
ORIGIN: Gr Dōris a sea-goddess
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doˈridoid noun and adjective

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