Pandora

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
  2. Proper noun.  (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
  3. Noun.  (biology) Common name for a number of fish of genus ''Pagellus''.

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