pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter
the first asteroid to be discovered, being the largest and one of the brightest
fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, esp. a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open
the Roman goddess of agriculture compare demeter
dwarf planet that orbits within the asteroid belt with a mean distance from the sun of 2.7 astronomical units (260 million miles) and a diameter of 590 miles (950 kilometers)