Tethys
noun
1.
Classical Mythology. a Titan, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids and river gods.
2.
Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
3.
Geology. the Mesozoic ocean or seaway of which the Mediterranean Sea is a greatly shrunken remnant.
noun
1.
(Greek myth) a Titaness and sea goddess, wife of Oceanus
noun
1.
a large satellite of the planet Saturn
noun
1.
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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