What is the meaning of HESP. Phrases containing HESP
See meanings and uses of HESP!HESP
HESP
HESP
HESP
HESP
HESP
Acronyms & AI meanings
Applied Vehicle Technologies
Normal Temperature Pressure
Reclams Bibliothek Leipzig
Association for Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa
Landmark Feature Identification Number
National Center for Boundless Playgrounds
Icons and Images Have Been Added
The University Of Cape Town
Spatial Scalable Profile
HESP
HESP
HESP
n.
A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
n. pl.
The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
n.
An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
n.
A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.
n.
The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
n.
The evening; Hesperus.
n.
Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
n. pl.
An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadae).
n.
A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
a.
Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
n.
A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
a. & n.
Same as 3d Hesperian.
a.
Western; being in the west; occidental.
n.
One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
n.
A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
n. pl.
The garden producing the golden apples.
n.
Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.
n.
A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
n.
Evening.
HESP
HESP