Proserpine
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Proper noun
Proserpine
- (Roman mythology) Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”).
- A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.
- A town in Whitsunday Region, Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.