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VICEROY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller

Synonyms:

Limenitis archippus; viceroy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("viceroy" is a kind of...):

brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)

Holonyms ("viceroy" is a member of...):

genus Limenitis; Limenitis (mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign

Synonyms:

vicereine; viceroy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("viceroy" is a kind of...):

governor (the head of a state government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viceroy"):

exarch (a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire)

Khedive (one of the Turkish viceroys who ruled Egypt between 1867 and 1914)

Derivation:

viceregal (of or relating to a viceroy)

viceroyship (the position of viceroy)

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