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Small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers
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callirhoe
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Callirhoé is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches . It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto , by Pierre-Charles Roy , is based on a story from The Description of Greece by Pausanias (see ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Callirhoe \Callirhoe\ n. small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers. Syn: genus Callirhoe .
Usage examples of callirhoe.
Particularly, I want to welcome those of you from Callirhoe and Wanasha who made starfall in this system such a short time ago and still have gone out of your way to be here on time.
For one thing, many marine staff under Hal's supervision were pulled back from other duties to be run over to Callirhoe to assist in maintenance work secondary to the mission she had just completed.
It had not been hand-to-hand work—just shipboard stuff, the Star Force ship going in low to preempt the little Phorcys-based raiders who had attacked Ordinen, Eraklion's biggest open-cast mine—but the marines assigned to Callirhoe managed to make it sound like the Second Galactic War when they came aboard that night for the usual "two-ships" social.
The fountain too, which, since the alteration made by the tyrants, has been called Enneacrounos, or Nine Pipes, but which, when the spring was open, went by the name of Callirhoe, or Fairwater, was in those days, from being so near, used for the most important offices.
He was carried to the warm springs at Callirhoe near the Jordan, and he became worse.