PROGNE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A swallow.

2.
n.

A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.

3.
n.

An American butterfly (Polygonia, or Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.


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