Definition of Proserpine:
(n) :
A town in Whitsunday Region, Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.
(n) :
A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859.
(n) :
(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”). [(Roman mythology) The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld and the wife of Pluto; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.]