Tethys

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) 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.
  2. Proper noun.  (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
  3. Proper noun.  (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

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