a large flightless bird of South American grasslands, resembling a small ostrich with greyish-brown plumage
one of the Titans, wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Hades. Frightened of betrayal by their children, Cronus ate them; Rhea rescued Zeus from this fate by hiding him and giving Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead
a satellite of Saturn, the fourteenth closest to the planet, discovered by Cassini in 1672 (diameter 1,530 km)