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| Te·thys [ tthiss ] |
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1. Titan: in Greek mythology, a Titan who was the wife of Oceanus and the mother of thousands of sea and river gods and nymphs
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2. moon of Saturn: a large natural satellite of Saturn, discovered in 1684. It has a diameter of 1,050 km (651 mi) and is Saturn's ninth most distant satellite, orbiting at a distance of 295,000 km (182,900 mi).
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3. ancient sea: an ancient sea that is thought to have separated Laurasia and Gondwanaland, surviving vestigially today as the Mediterranean
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| [Late 19th century. Via Latin< Greek Tēthus] |
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