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Tethys

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Noun

1. tethys

(Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus

2. aplysia, genus aplysia, genus tethus, tethys

type genus of the family Aplysiidae

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tethys

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noun
Greek mythology
a Titaness and sea goddess, wife of Oceanus
noun
a large satellite of the planet Saturn
noun
the sea that lay between Laurasia and Gondwanaland, the two supercontinents formed by the first split of the larger supercontinent Pangaea. The Tethys Sea can be regarded as the predecessor of today's smaller Mediterranean
See also Pangaea

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Tethys

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noun
1.  Greek Mythology
a daughter of Uranus and wife of Oceanus, by whom she is the mother of the Oceanides
2. 
a satellite of Saturn having long trenchlike valleys and sharing its orbit with other satellites
an ancient sea and geosyncline, especially of the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic eras that separated Laurasia from Gondwana

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tethys

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n.
1. Greek Mythology A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus.
2. A satellite of Saturn.

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