genus vanessa

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   painted beauty and red admiral

   SynonymsVanessa

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofNymphalidae

Questions about genus vanessa

What does genus vanessa mean?

genus vanessa means "painted beauty and red admiral".

What is another word for genus vanessa?

Close synonyms include Vanessa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus vanessa a common word?

genus vanessa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.