ARTEMIS

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• ARTEMIS (noun)
  The noun ARTEMIS has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana

  Familiarity information: ARTEMIS used as a noun is very rare.

• ARTEMIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Artemis; Cynthia

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes protein artemis, plays a role in the mediation of both V(D)J recombination and DNA repair via nonhomologous end joining.

(DCLRE1C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)