Procne
English
Etymology
From
Ancient Greek
Πρόκνη
(
Próknē
)
.
Proper noun
Procne
The daughter of king
Pandion
of
Athens
, in Greek mythology, who got revenge on her husband
Tereus
for raping her sister
Philomela
by feeding him his own son, and was later transformed into a
bird
by the
gods
.
Derived terms
Procnean
Progne
,
Ptyonoprogne
,
Psalidoprocne
(
swallow
genera
)
Anagrams
crepon
,
cropen
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