Definitions for Rhea

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Rhea rhe·a

Spelling: [ree-uh]

IPA: /ˈri ə/

Rhea is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Rhea (aehr).

Definitions for Rhea

noun

1. the ramie plant or fiber.
2. 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.
3. Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
4. (lowercase) either of two South American, ratite birds, Rhea americana or Pterocnemia pennata, resembling the African ostrich but smaller and having three toes.
5. a female given name.

Origin of Rhea

First recorded in 1850-55, rhea is from the Assamese word rihā

Examples for Rhea

Poseidon was the son of Kronos and rhea, and the brother of Zeus.

Maternal rhea treasures in her breast All marbles: purple, green, and white.

Mr. rhea was an old man and General Jackson's health feeble.

Demeter (from Ge-meter, earth-mother) was the daughter of Cronus and rhea.

We recognised the bird at once as the rhea Americana, or American ostrich.

The next in importance to linen is ramie or rhea, and China grass.

Do not distress him, rhea, by contradiction and explanation.

Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of a lady named rhea Sylvia.

The rhea is easily tamed, and is constantly seen about the huts of the Patagonians.

He's been with the model rhea Durham since 2001, and the two were married in 2009.