Veles
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Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Veles m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Caprimulgidae – brown nightjar, of much of tropical Africa.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Caprimulgiformes - order; Caprimulgidae (nightjars) - family; Caprimulginae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Veles binotatus - sole species
References
Veles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Veles on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Veles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
English
Proper noun
Veles
- A city in central North Macedonia.
- (Slavic mythology) The pagan Slavic god of the fertile earth, livestock, waters, and the underworld, often portrayed as a chimera.
- Synonym: Volos
- HD 75898 b, an exoplanet approximately 2.71 times the mass of Jupiter in the Stribor system, ~255 ly from Earth.
Translations
a city in the Republic of Macedonia
a pagan Slavic god
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