Found 2 items, similar to vanessa.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Vanessa Vanessa n : painted beauty and red admiral [syn: genus Vanessa]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vanessa Vanessa \Van*es"sa\, n. [Probably from Swift's poem of Cadenus and Vanessa. See Vanessa, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped. [1913 Webster]