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Apollo vs Pythoness - What's the difference?

apollo | pythoness |

As nouns the difference between apollo and pythoness

is that apollo is (astronomy) an asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 au, and perihelion distances less than 1017 au while pythoness is (history) the priestess of the oracle of apollo at delphi.

As a proper noun apollo

is (greek god|roman god): the son of zeus and leto, (or jupiter and latona), and the twin brother of artemis, (or diana) oxford dictionary of world mythology'', arthur cotterell, oxford university press, 1986 he was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; ''webster's college dictionary , random house, 2001 and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.

apollo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very handsome young man.
  • A butterfly, also known as (mountain apollo) ().

    • pythoness

    English

    Etymology 1

    See Pythoness.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (Pythoness)
  • A female soothsayer

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • A female python.
  • * 1862 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art , Volume 56,
    • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.