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‖ Thalia|θəˈlaɪə|
[a. Gr. θάλεια (‘luxuriant, blooming’, f. θάλλειν to bloom).]
1. The eighth of the Muses, presiding over comedy and idyllic poetry; also, one of the three Graces, patroness of festive meetings.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 317 The Thalia's, the Polyhymnia's, the Terpsychore's, the Euterpe's willingly join their parts. 1799Campbell Pleas. Hope ii. 168 Turn to the gentler melodies that suit Thalia's harp, or Pan's Arcadian lute.
2. Bot. A genus of aquatic herbaceous plants, N.O. Marantaceæ, natives of tropical America.
1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 112. 1878 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 287 In Thalia cross-fertilization is ensured by the wonderful movement, if bees visit several flowers.
†3. Zool. An old synonym of the genus Salpa2.
1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 384 The Thalia, with a square erect crest... The Thalia, with a rounded depressed crest. 1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc., Thalidans, Thalides.., the name of a tribe of Tunicaries, of which the genus Salpa or Thalia is the type.
b. A genus of coleopterous insects.
1838F. W. Hope Coleopterist's Man. ii. 70.
4. Astron. The twenty-third of the Asteroids. |
