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rhea noun1. E19.
[mod. Latin use as genus name of Latin, Greek Rhea, mother of Zeus (Jupiter) in class. mythol.]
Either of two S. American flightless birds of the family Rheidae, the grey Rhea americana (more fully common rhea, grey rhea, greater rhea) and the brown Pterocremia pennata (more fully lesser rhea), resembling but smaller than the ostrich.