Mariposa is a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for a series of short stories. They were originally commissioned by The Montreal Star newspaper and later collected and published in one volume as Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Since then, many attempts have been made to expand the cannon, present it in a different form or make reference to it.

any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico

Mariposa is a relational database research project run by Michael Stonebraker at UC Berkeley. Mariposa focuses on creating wide-area distributed databases using an economic model in which querying servers "buy" data from data servers which "sell" it. The result is a network of servers that quickly reaches a best-performance point.

a beautiful and spacious property with ivory inlaid marble flooring and built in climate control air conditioning throughout

a captivating, intoxicating individual

Spanish for butterfly, has also come to refer to a male homosexual. (RS)