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1. Vanessa
   HMS Vanessa was a British V Class destroyer of 1090 tons displacement launched in 1918. She was armed with four 4-inch guns; one 2-pounder pompom anti-aircraft gun; one machine gun; four Lewis guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes arranged in two triple mountings added during modifications carried out ...
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2. Vanessa
   [n] - painted beauty and red admiral
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3. Vanessa
   Van·es'sa noun [ Probably from Swift's poem of Cadenus and Vanessa . See Vanessa , in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa<...
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4. vanessa
   <zoology> Any one of numerous species of handsomely coloured butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped. ... Origin: Probably from Swift's poem of Cadenus and Vanessa. See Vanessa, in the Dictionary of Noted Names...
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5. Vanessa
   genus Vanessa noun painted beauty and red admiral
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6. Vanessa
   • (n.) Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
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7. Vanessa
   (from the article `Barber, Samuel`) ...three vocal works with orchestra, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1948), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Andromache`s Farewell (1962); and Medea ...
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8. Vanessa
   Vanessa is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `a butterfly ` Where is it used? The name Vanessa is mainly used In English.It is an abbreviated form of Nessa, used In English. Vanessa appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 71. The name reached the top-100 19 times. 1998 was a `top year` for the name Vanessa. (Based on 1
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9. Vanessa
   Vanessa is a cultivated variety of potato.
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10. Vanessa
    Vanessa is a genus of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae, and including some handsome and conspicuous species. The club of the antennae is short and bold, and the eyes are extremely hairy.
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11. Vanessa
    (opera) `Vanessa` is an opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956&ndash;1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimit...
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12. Vanessa
    (butterfly) `Vanessa` is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. Many people are familiar with it, as it has a near-global distribution and includes conspicuous species such as the `red admirals` (e.g., Red Admiral, Indian Red Admiral, New Zealand Red Admiral), the Kamehameha, and the `pa...
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13. Vanessa
    (Millais painting) `Vanessa` (1868) is a painting by John Everett Millais in Sudley House, Liverpool. It is a fancy portrait depicting Jonathan Swift`s correspondent Esther Vanhomrigh, who was known by that pseudonym. Vanessa represents a major departure in Millais`s art because he aba...
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14. Vanessa
    (TV channel) `Vanessa` is a Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel. Vanessa is a pay-TV adult entertainment television channel consisting of primarily softcore adult content in the form of films, documentaries, reality shows, variety shows, and more between 6:00 a...
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