(n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
(n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(2) Homer describes a game called Urania in the Odyssey .
Uranic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) An intensely Cr-PTA reactive band approximately 0.1 micron thick appeared along the surface layer of enamel at the transitional stage, and at the very beginning of the maturation stage another intensely Cr-PTA reactive band which was seen by uran-lead stain to be a delicate electron-dense membranous structure appeared as well between enamel and ameloblasts.
(2) Thus acoustic excitation of the an uran's inner ear depends on a complex interaction between tympanic and extratympanic sound transmission.
(3) The uranic acid content of the slime layer ranged from 2% to 6% in the MR mutants and from 1.3% to 5.1% in the MS substrains.
(4) The authors represent the time course of irradiation of the personnel of uran-graphite reactors in the period of starting up the first one in 1947 up to 1988 and atomic power stations of various types over the period of 1978-1987.
(5) Uranly, copper, and zinc salts inhibited the transformation of the EAC1-9inserted intermediate to E ghosts.
(6) This summer, BHP Billiton, the giant Anglo-Australian mining group, shelved plans for the world's largest open-pit copper and uran, and announced it has no plans to build or acquire other uranium minesium mine in south Australia.