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Hi⋅ma⋅lia

[hi-mahl-yuh]
–noun Astronomy.
a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.

Origin:
appar. for Gk himalís an epithet of Demeter
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Hi·ma·lia   (hĭ-mäl'yə)   
n.  A satellite of Jupiter.

[Greek, name of a nymph who bore three sons of Zeus, probably from himalia, abundance of wheat-meal, from feminine of himalios, abundant.]
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