Usually means: Genus of colorful brush-footed butterflies.
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  1. vanessa: Merriam-Webster
  2. Vanessa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vanessa: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Vanessa: Vocabulary.com
  5. Vanessa, vanessa: Wordnik
  6. vanessa: Wiktionary
  7. Vanessa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Vanessa: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. vanessa: Dictionary.com
  10. Vanessa (Coronation Street), Vanessa (King of Fighters), Vanessa (Mexican TV series), Vanessa (Millais painting), Vanessa (The Little Mermaid), Vanessa (butterfly), Vanessa (name), Vanessa (opera), Vanessa (telenovela), Vanessa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Vanessa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. vanessa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Vanessa: Rhymezone
  14. Vanessa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. vanessa: FreeDictionary.org
  16. vanessa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Vanessa: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vanessa)

▸ noun:  A female given name originating as a coinage.
▸ noun:  (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Vanessa.

Similar:
genus vanessa, Vannie, Evangeline, Nessa, Janessa, Nevaeh, Velma, Wendy, Vanassa, Luana, more...

Opposite:
jacob, jacobus, jacobina

Phrases:
Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, Vanessa Williams, Vanessa atalanta, vanessa stephen, more...

Adjectives:
poor, unfortunate, older, impetuous, celebrated, little, unhappy, last, swift, young, beautiful

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Similar:
genus vanessa, Vannie, Evangeline, Nessa, Janessa, Nevaeh, Velma, Wendy, Vanassa, Luana, more...

Opposite:
jacob, jacobus, jacobina

Phrases:
Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, Vanessa Williams, Vanessa atalanta, vanessa stephen, Vanessa Beecroft, vanessa virginiensis, genus vanessa, bell, vanessa, bell vanessa, Vanessa cardui, Vanessa Kerry, more...

Adjectives:
poor, unfortunate, older, impetuous, celebrated, little, unhappy, last, swift, young, beautiful

Colors:
    red,     pink,     purple,     lavender,     lilac, more...



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