Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word AGLAIA

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Definitions of AGLAIA

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage.

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Examples of Using AGLAIA in a Sentence

• Charites, three goddesses in Greek mythology (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia), in whom beauty was deified.
• In 1794, Karamzin abandoned his literary journal and published a miscellany in two volumes entitled Aglaia, in which appeared, among other stories, "The Island of Bornholm" and Ilya Muromets, the former being one of the first Russian Gothic stories and the latter, a story based on the adventures of the well-known hero of many a Russian legend.
• Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "today at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
• Species in the genus Aglaia synthesize a unique class of highly bioactive chemical compounds known as flavaglines.
• Vendetta: (Voiced by Aglaia Mortcheva) Vendetta is a sociopathic, narcissistic and histrionic young tomboy with the power to create "fiends" with a book of recipes.
• Known for their Greek heritage and beauty, Spartali along with her cousins, Maria Zambaco and Aglaia Coronio, were known collectively among friends as "the Three Graces," after the Charites of Greek mythology (Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia).
• The tree species Aglaia bourdillonii, bird subspecies great eared-nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis bourdilloni and the blackbird Turdus merula bourdilloni are named after him.
• There has been some dispute for which species the specific name aglaja (or aglaia), used twice by Linnaeus in 1758, applies – the redbase Jezebel, or the dark green fritillary (Speyeria aglaja), a brush-footed butterfly.
• Aglaia lawii, Aglaia roxburghiana (Meliaceae), Cinnamomum camphora, Litsea glutinosa, Litsea populifolia (Lauraceae), Sapium sebiferum (Euphorbiaceae), Adenanthera pavonina, Paraserianthes falcataria (= Falcataria moluccana), Tamarindus indica (Leguminosae), and Acronychia penduculata (Rutaceae).
• Associated trees include Aglaia elaeagnoidea, Calophyllum austroindicum, Cullenia exarillata, Myristica dactyloides, Elaeocarpus munroi, Elaeocarpus tuberculatus, Garcinia travancorica, Garcinia rubroechinata, Holigarna nigra, Syzygium mundagam, and Syzygium rama-varmae.
• Towers, Insecticidal bioactivity of crude extracts of Aglaia species (meliaceae), Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 121–127, ISSN 0305-1978,
• Pannell, in 2004, in their paper: 'Three New Species, Two New Subspecies and Five New Combinations at the Subspecific Level in Aglaia Lour.
• Other characters include Periandros' sister, Stavroula, her adulterous, lazy and linguistically challenged husband, Vangellis, who as the village's coffee house owner is also Chara's main competitor, the village idiot Trelantonis whom Chara takes in, the bakers, Lefteris and Kanella, who have a long-running feud with the greengrocers, Tasos and Chaido over a fig tree (only to have their feud resolved when their children, Billy and Gogo get together and eventually marry), the village's priest Papa-Triantafyllos and his gossiping wife Marika and Aglaia, the wacky teacher who is madly in love with Periandros and fantasizes about marrying him.
• Artists include Nikolaos Gyzis, Georgios Jakobides, Spyridon Vikatos, Sophia Laskaridou, Georgios Roilos, Thalia Flora-Karavia, Konstantinos Parthenis, Konstantinos Maleas, Nikiforos Lytras, Demetrios Galanis, Yannis Tsarouchis, Spyros Vassiliou, Giorgios Gounaropoulos, George Bouzianis, Panayiotis Tetsis, Alekos Fassianos, Aglaia Papa, Demetrios Galanis, Vaso Katraki, Michael Tombros, Theodoros Papagiannis and Athanase Apartis.
• Although further research is necessary, Aristobia approximator appears to feed on a very wide range of plants and it has been reported as feeding on Aglaia, Annona, cassias (Cassia), Casuarina, Eucalyptus, crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia), Peltophorum, pears (Pyrus), roses (Rosa), teak (Tectona), Xylia and others.
• The larvae feed on Azadirachta indica, Melia azedarach, Owenia venosa, Aglaia sapindina, Jasminum sambac and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis.
• K Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler, William Kentridge, Martin Kippenberger, Joachim Koester, Peter Kogler, Aglaia Konrad, Rem Koolhaas, Hans-Werner Kroesinger.
• Aglaia heterotricha, Didymocheton tongensis, Hedycarya alternifolia, Ixora yunckeri, Plantago euana, and the fern Thelypteris macroptera are endemic to 'Eua.
• aglaia include loss-of-habitat, in part due to invasive pigs and goats, as well as introduced predators such as big-headed ants, yellow crazy ants, and yellowjacket wasps.
• Participants: Marcel Broodthaers, Jef Cornelis, Anne Daems, Raoul De Keyser, Lili Dujourie, Lionel Estève, Jan Fabre and Ilya Kabakov, Jef Geys, Johan Grimonprez, Ann Veronica Janssen, Aglaia Konrad, Franciska Lambrechts, Martin Margiela, Kobe Matthys, Everlyn Nicodemus, Honoré d'O, Panamarenko, Roger Raveel, Joëlle Teurlinckx, Luc Tuymans, Jan Vercruysse, Gert Verhoeven.

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