Definitions for Arethusa

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Arethusa ar·e·thu·sa

Spelling: [ar-uh-thoo-zuh]

IPA: /ˌær əˈθu zə/

Arethusa is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in Arethusa (aaehrstu).

Definitions for Arethusa

noun

1. Also called dragon's mouth, swamp pink. an orchid, Arethusa bulbosa, of eastern North America, having a solitary pink flower with a blotched, fringed lip: now rare.
2. (initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a nymph who was changed into a spring to save her when she was being pursued by the river god Alpheus.

Origin of Arethusa

1810-20; (New Latin) Greek Aréthousa

Examples for Arethusa

For it surely looked to arethusa as if that was what had been done.

And arethusa could not possibly tell, from his expression, whether he was joking or not.

And now, arethusa, you are really going to learn to play on the piano.

There was yet the Kln with which the arethusa had to do battle.

The arethusa had also come up and prepared (p. 256) to launch a torpedo.

Then arethusa, in blind panic, fled before the god who loved her.

Then arethusa, thus arrayed in her best, descended the stairs once more.

Well, Jasper, you must know that arethusa's piano is actually engaged.

arethusa was also the name of a water-nymph inhabiting the spring.

arethusa drew a deep, sharp breath of ecstasy at all this loveliness.