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Cydonia   Listen
noun
Cydonia  n.  A genus of plants including the quince.
Synonyms: genus Cydonia.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cydonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... under whose administration these immortal sculptures were produced was commemorated by a portrait statue or head, set up during his lifetime on the Athenian Acropolis; it was from the hand of Cresilas, of Cydonia in Crete. It is perhaps this portrait of which copies have come down to us. The best of these is given in Fig 131. The features are, we may believe, the authentic features of Pericles, somewhat idealized, according to the custom of portraiture in this ...
— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell



Words linked to "Cydonia" :   quince bush, quince, rosid dicot genus, rose family, family Rosaceae



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