- Beacon - Coastal tower - It guides ships nearing the shore - Onshore navigation aid for ships - Ship warning tower - Vessel guidance structure - A tower or other building with a powerful light at top,
erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a
coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
- The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of
Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in
Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the
guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of
Hercules. Called also Atlantides. - The garden producing the golden apples.
- A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of
cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit
trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal
themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various
species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
- The Croton bug. - Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic,
hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other
genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and
fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size,
being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of
the water and fly about at night.