Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Aphrodite \Aph`ro*di"te\, n. [Gr. ?.]
   1. (Classic Myth.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding
      to the Venus of the Romans.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A large marine annelid, covered with long,
      lustrous, golden, hairlike set[ae]; the sea mouse.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) A beautiful butterfly ({Argunnis Aphrodite}) of
      the United States.

Source : WordNet®

Aphrodite
     n : goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient
         mythology; identified with Roman Venus [syn: {Cytherea}]