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rhea
/ˈɹiə/
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What does rhea mean?
noun
- A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America.
- Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.
proper noun
- A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.
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proper noun
- Saturn V, one of the moons of Saturn.
- The asteroid 577 Rhea.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek in occasional use.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Rhea's Mill Township, Washington County, Arkansas, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹiə/
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Then on Mount Aventine the son of Jove The priestess Rhea found, and forc’d to love.
Rhea or Cybele, sprung from the Earth, was "mother of all the gods."
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Gai signifies the Earth as a whole, Rhea the productive powers of the Earth, and Ceres utilizes and distributes the productive forces of Rhea.
The South American ostrich, the Rhea, though smaller and less dangerous than his big African cousin, can be most pugnacious when he is rearing a family of young chicks.
But what is of more general interest is the unquestionable (as it appears to me) existence of another species of ostrich, besides the Struthio rhea.