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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A woman adviser or counselor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Roman mythology, a prophetic nymph or divinity, the instructress of Numa Pompilius, and invoked as the giver of life.
  • noun [NL.] In zoology: A genus of brachyurous decapod crustaceans, of the family Maiidæ, or spidercrabs. E. indica is an Indian species.
  • noun A genus of bivalve shells, of the family Donacidæ, generally considered to be the same as Galatea.
  • noun [NL.] See Ægeria.
  • noun The 13th planetoid, discovered by De Gasparis, at Naples, in 1850.

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  • proper noun Roman mythology A nymph or minor goddess from Roman mythology.
  • proper noun astronomy 13 Egeria, the asteroid.

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  • noun small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Egeria, Roman nymph or goddess and adviser to Numa Pompilius, a legendary Roman king.]

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