Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Greek Mythology The sister and wife of Cronus and the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.
  • noun A satellite of Saturn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The ramie-plant or -fiber.
  • noun In anc. myth., a daughter of Uranus and Ge, or Heaven and Earth, wife and sister of Kronos, and mother of various divinities.
  • noun [NL.] In ornithology: The only genus of Rheidæ; the only American genus of living ratite birds; the only three-toed ostriches.
  • noun [lowercase] An American ostrich.
  • noun The fifth satellite of Saturn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under grass.
  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Greek mythology A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.
  • proper noun astronomy One of the moons of Saturn.
  • proper noun A female given name in occasional use.
  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Rheidae — the rheas.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology; wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus; identified with Roman Ops and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor
  • noun larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia
  • noun smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, from Greek Rheā.]

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From Ancient Greek Ῥέα.

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  • Just as the name Rhea takes on Carla’s image from Cheers, the name Rue takes on Blanche’s image from The Golden Girls.

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  • Just as the name Rhea takes on Carla’s image from Cheers, the name Rue takes on Blanche’s image from The Golden Girls.

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  • However, Rhea is much larger (with a diameter of 1,528.8 km) than either Mimas (396.6 km) or Enceladus (504.2 km).

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  • However, Rhea is much larger (with a diameter of 1,528.8 km) than either Mimas (396.6 km) or Enceladus (504.2 km).

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  • In that vein, the biggest crater at the south pole has been called Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus.

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  • I’m not going to insist on a URL for anyone commenting – Rhea is a good example of who that would penalize.

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  • Drilling of the high-grade strand, now termed Rhea, together with other targets situated in the south east part of the project area will commence when permitting and heritage surveys have been completed.

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  • Rhea which is also known under the name of ramie, is a textile plant which was indigenous to China and India.

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  • Though the two look close together, Epimetheus is actually well behind the heavily cratered Rhea.

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  • I saw 9 a week ago and being the science fictional gal I am, when fellow writer Rhea Rose wanted to see a movie, we got it down to Where the Wild Things Are and Zombieland.

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