VANESSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vanessa mean? 

• VANESSA (noun)
  The noun VANESSA has 1 sense:

1. painted beauty and red admiral

  Familiarity information: VANESSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANESSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Painted beauty and red admiral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Vanessa; Vanessa

Hypernyms ("Vanessa" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Vanessa"):

painted beauty; Vanessa virginiensis (American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots)

red admiral; Vanessa atalanta (of temperate Europe and Asia; having black wings with red and white markings)

Holonyms ("Vanessa" is a member of...):

family Nymphalidae; Nymphalidae (large beautifully colored butterflies)

 Context examples 

In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia (UGA) ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa has found that de-worming drastically improves an animal's chances of surviving bovine tuberculosis—but with the consequence of increasing the spread of TB in the population.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

Vanessa Hull, a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve, most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)