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rhea (n.)
three-toed South American ostrich, 1801, Modern Latin genus name, for unknown reasons from Greek Rhea, the name of a titaness, wife and sister of Kronos, mother of Zeus, etc.; a name of unknown origin. Her name also was given to a moon of Saturn discovered in 1672.
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