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Tethys
noun
- Gr. Myth. a daughter of Uranus and wife of Oceanus, by whom she is the mother of the Oceanides
- a satellite of Saturn having long trenchlike valleys and sharing its orbit with other satellites
an ancient sea and geosyncline, especially of the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic eras that separated Laurasia from Gondwana
See Tethys in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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