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Rhea

noun

Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology; wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus; identified with Roman Ops and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor.

Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan. Synonyms: nandu, Pterocnemia pennata.

Larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia. Synonym: Rhea americana.

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"Rhea" Quotes from Famous Books

... occasionally by night to stick a pig when beef and mutton were wanting. I never tasted or wanted to taste their flesh. The gaucho is inordinately fond of the two gamiest-flavoured animals in the pampas—the ostrich or rhea and the hairy armadillo. These I could eat and enjoy eating, although I was often told by English friends that they were too strong for their stomachs; but the very thought of this wild pig-flesh produced a ...

— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson

... over all the plains of Elis, Pylos, and Messene, the strength and sustenance of men was naturally felt to be granted by Zeus; as, on the east coast of Greece, the greater clearness of the air by the power of Athena. If you will recollect the prayer of Rhea, in the single line of Callimachus—"[Greek: Gaia phile, teke kai su teai d' odines elaphrai]," (compare Pausanias iv. 33, at the beginning,)—it will mark for you the connection, in the Greek mind, of the birth of the mountain springs ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Rhea" : Titaness, ratite, genus Pterocnemia, ratite bird, nandu, flightless bird, Agdistis, Pterocnemia, Pterocnemia pennata