Leda

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noun

Gr. Myth. a queen of Sparta and the wife of Tyndareus: she is the mother (variously by Tyndareus and by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan) of Clytemnestra, Helen of Troy, and Castor and Pollux

Origin: L < Gr Lēda

See Leda in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. Greek Mythology A queen of Sparta and the mother, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Helen and Pollux and, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra.
  2. A satellite of Jupiter.
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