Europa
noun
- Gr. Myth. a Phoenician princess loved by Zeus: he, disguised as a white bull, carries her off across the sea to Crete
- the fourth largest satellite of Jupiter: discovered in 1610 by Galileo
See Europa in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(yo͝o-rōˈpə)
noun- Greek Mythology A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus, who had assumed the form of a white bull, and by him the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon.
- One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the sixth in distance from the planet. It was originally sighted by Galileo.
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