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Io

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An abbreviation of Iowa.
  • noun. In mythology, a daughter of Inachus, metamorphosed into a heifer and caused to be tormented by a terrible gadfly by Hera, in jealous revenge for the favors of Zeus. See Argus, 1.
  • noun. The innermost of the four satellites of Jupiter.
  • noun. In entomology: A genus of vanessoid butterflies.
  • noun. [lowercase] The peacock butterfly, Vanessa io: used both as the technical specific name and as an English word.
  • noun. [lowercase] A showy and beautiful moth of North America, Hyperchiria io, or Saturnia io, of yellow coloration, with prominent pink and bluish eyes on the hinder wings.
  • A Latin interjection, or exclamation of joy or triumph: sometimes used as a noun in English.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. An exclamation of joy or triumph.
  • noun. A type of moth, the io moth.
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  • noun. the closest of Jupiter's moons; has active volcanoes
  • noun. (Greek mythology) a maiden seduced by Zeus; when Hera was about to discover them together Zeus turned her into a white heifer
  • Word Usage
    "(U) Tacitus tells us, that the power of Urgulania was io great, that fhe difdained to ap - pear as a witnefs in a certain caufe before the fenate » fo that a praetor was fent to examine her at her own houfe, though it had been always ufual, even io» ithe Veftal virgins, to attend the forum, and courts of juftice, whenever their evidence was required* to to Taniib of \tk\i."
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