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Eros [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

Eros Encyclopedia Britannica

EROS, in Greek mythology, Love or Desire. By later poets he is represented as a son of Zeus and Gaia (the Earth), or Aphrodite, or Artemis; but in the Hesiodic theogony he makes up, with Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus, the number of self-existent deities, and as the most beautiful of all the gods, he conquers the mind and will of both gods and men. The name Eros answers to the Vedic Arusha, a name applied to the sun, but only at his rising. Arusha, like the Greek Eros and the Latin Cupido, is spoken of as a child with beautiful wings.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 8, p. 527
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Erose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, an erose leaf has small sinuses in the margin, as if gnawed.

Erose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

2. Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed.

Erosion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin erosio.] The act or operation of eating away.

2. The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

Erosion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

2. The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

Erosive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.

Erostrate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without a beak.