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Hesperus

[′hes·prəs]
(astronomy)
Greek name for the planet Venus as an evening star.
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Hesperus

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Hesperus is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears as the Evening Star.

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|The Hesperus arrives at Gladstone Dock in December 1942 with damage to the bow after ramming and sinking a U-357.
It was an empirical discovery that Hesperus is Phosphorus, and Venus.
Roosting habits of Pipistrellus hesperus. Journal of Mammalogy 46:270-279.
If the meaning of a name is nothing over and above its referent, (3) then (1) and (2) have the same meaning, since the names 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorous' designate the same object.
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a poem by US poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1841.
If the reference determiner for the name "Hesperus" succeeds in picking out something in the context of introduction, since the reference determiners for both occurrences of "Hesperus" are identical, they will pick out the same object.
Simon Fraser University graduate students Samantha Vibert and Catherine Scott, working with SFU biology professor Gerhard Gries, recorded the vibrations made by male black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus), hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis) and prey insects.
hesperus, is more of a threat in Arizona and California.
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