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<span class="bold large">Pan.do/ra</span> <span class="medium">|panˈdôrə|</span> <span class="sans">Greek Mythology</span><br/>
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<p class="paragraph">the first mortal woman. In one story she was created by <a href="#zeus">Zeus</a> and sent to earth with a jar or box of evils in revenge for <a href="#prometheus">Prometheus</a>' having brought the gift of fire back to the world. Pandora let out all the evils from the jar to infect the earth; hope alone remained to assuage the lot of humankind.</p><br/>
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ORIGIN from the Greek name <span class="bold italic">Pandōra ‘all-gifted’</span> (from <span class="bold italic">pan ‘all’</span> + <span class="bold italic">dōron ‘gift’</span>).<br/>
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<span class="bold large">pan.do/ra</span> <span class="medium">|panˈdôrə|</span> (also <span class="bold">pandora shell</span> or <span class="bold">Pandora's box shell</span>)<br/>
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<p class="paragraph">a burrowing bivalve mollusk with a fragile shell, the unequal valves of which form a “box” with a lid. • Genus Pandora, family Pandoridae.</p><br/>
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ORIGIN modern Latin, from Greek <span class="bold italic">pandoura ‘three-stringed lute’</span> (because of the shell's resemblance to the sound box of a stringed instrument).<br/> |