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Gaea

(jē′ə)

noun

Gr. Myth. a goddess who is the personification of the earth, the mother of the Titans: identified with the Roman Tellus

Origin: Gr Gaia < gē, earth

See Gaea in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Greek Mythology

The goddess of the earth, who bore and married Uranus and became the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.

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