Proserpine (English, name)
expansion: Proserpine
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glosses: Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”).
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glosses: A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.
glosses: A town in Whitsunday Region, Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.
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