Associations to the word «Tethys»

Wiktionary

TETHYS, proper noun. (Greek god) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
TETHYS, proper noun. (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
TETHYS, proper noun. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

Dictionary definition

TETHYS, noun. (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus.
TETHYS, noun. Type genus of the family Aplysiidae.

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