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rhe⋅a

  [ree-uh]
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–noun
the ramie plant or fiber.
Origin:
1850–55; < Assamese rihā

Rhe⋅a

  [ree-uh]
–noun
1. Classical Mythology. a Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the wife and sister of Cronus, and the mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia: identified with Cybele and, by the Romans, with Ops.
2. Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
3. (lowercase) either of two South American, ratite birds, Rhea americana or Pterocnemia pennata, resembling the African ostrich but smaller and having three toes.
4. a female given name.

-rhea

 
var. of -rrhea.
Compare rheo-.

-rrhea

 
a combining form meaning “flow,” “discharge,” used in the formation of compound words: gonorrhea.
Also, -rhea.
Compare rheo-.

Origin:
< NL -rrhoea < Gk -rrhoia, comb. form repr. rhoía a flow, akin to rheîn to flow, stream
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rhe·a   (rē'ə)   
n.  Any of several flightless South American birds of the genus Rhea, resembling the ostrich but somewhat smaller and having three toes instead of two.

[New Latin Rhea, genus name, probably from Latin, the wife of Cronus; see Rhea.]
Rhe·a   (rē'ə)   
n.  

  1. Greek Mythology The sister and wife of Cronus and the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.

  2. A satellite of Saturn.


[Latin, from Greek Rheā.]
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Word Origin & History

rhea 
S.Amer. ostrich, 1801, Mod.L. genus name, from Gk. Rhea, titaness, mother of Zeus, a name of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

-rrhea suff.
Flow; discharge: seborrhea.

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