English Explanatory Dictionary

Rheic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north.

Word forms

Rheic

Etymology

From Rhea (“a Titan in Greek mythology”) + -ic, for her being the sister of Iapetus (after whom had previously been named the predecessor of the Atlantic Ocean, for being the father of its eponym Atlas).

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