RHEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhea mean? 

• RHEA (noun)
  The noun RHEA has 3 senses:

1. fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology; wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus; identified with Roman Ops and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor

2. smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan

3. larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia

  Familiarity information: RHEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology; wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus; identified with Roman Ops and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Titaness ((Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant goddesses who were offspring of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth) in ancient mythology)

Instance hyponyms:

Agdistis (Asiatic epithet for Rhea or Cybele)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nandu; Pterocnemia pennata; rhea

Hypernyms ("rhea" is a kind of...):

flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Holonyms ("rhea" is a member of...):

genus Pterocnemia; Pterocnemia (a genus of birds of the family Rheidae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

rhea; Rhea americana

Hypernyms ("rhea" is a kind of...):

flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Holonyms ("rhea" is a member of...):

genus Rhea (type genus of the Rheidae; large tall flightless South American birds similar to but smaller than ostriches)

 Context examples 

North on Rhea is up and rotated 36 degrees to the right.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

The two views of Rhea were taken about an hour-and-a-half apart on Feb. 9, 2015, when Cassini was about 50,000 to 80,000 kilometers away from the moon.

(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)

This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Rhea.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

A dual view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea marks the return of NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the realm of the planet's icy satellites.

(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)

Subtle albedo variations across the disk of Rhea hint at past geologic activity.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

Rhea (949 miles or 1,527 kilometers across) is Saturn's second largest moon after Titan.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)