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<span class="bold large">Rh.ea</span> <span class="medium">|rēə|</span>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">1</span> <span class="sans">Greek Mythology</span> one of the Titans, wife of <a href="#cronus">Cronus</a> and mother of <a href="#zeus">Zeus</a>, <a href="#demeter">Demeter</a>, <a href="#poseidon">Poseidon</a>, <a href="#hera">Hera</a>, and <a href="#hades">Hades</a>. Frightened of betrayal by their children, <a href="#cronus">Cronus</a> ate them; Rhea rescued <a href="#zeus">Zeus</a> from this fate by hiding him and giving <a href="#cronus">Cronus</a> a stone wrapped in blankets instead.</p><br/>
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<p class="paragraph"><span class="bold">2</span> <span class="sans">Astronomy</span> a satellite of Saturn, the fourteenth closest to the planet, discovered by Cassini in 1672, and having a diameter of 951 miles (1,530 km).</p><br/>
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<span class="bold large">rh.ea</span> <span class="medium">|ˈrēə|</span><br/>
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<p class="paragraph">a large flightless bird of South American grasslands, resembling a small ostrich, with grayish-brown plumage. • Family Rheidae: two species, Rhea americana and Pterocnemia pennata.</p><br/>
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ORIGIN early 19th cent.: modern Latin (genus name), from the name of the Titan <span class="bold caps">Rhea</span>.<br/> |