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Definition of 'Tethys'Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
(Greek god) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
(geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
* 2004 , Richard Fortey, The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 106:
- Much of the Tethys was shallow and warm during the Mesozoic, and full of life, a marine paradise of sorts: ammonites and sharks thrived, and are now preserved as fossils that date the rocks.
(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
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* Tethyan
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