Alectryon
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Alectryon may refer to:
- Alectryon (mythology)Alectryon (mythology)Alectryon is the Ancient Greek word for "rooster". In Greek mythology, Alectryon was a youth, charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep, and Helios, the sun, walked in on the couple. Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster,...
- AlectorAlectorAlector refers to more than one person in classical myth and history:*Alector, the father of Leitus, himself one of the Argonauts. Homer calls him "Alectryon", and Diodorus "Electryon"....
, father of one of the Argonauts, referred to by Homer as "Alectryon" - Alectryon (genus)Alectryon (genus)Alectryon is a genus of trees in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. The genus is distributed across Australasia, Micronesia and Southeast Asia. The genus is found in a wide variety of environments from rainforests and gallery forests to arid savannas and heaths.Species height varies form low shrubs...
, in botany