Tethys vs Electra - What's the difference?
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(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:
(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
(Greek mythology) Any of several mythical women, including a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, one of the Pleiades, and one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.
(star) One of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster.
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As a proper noun tethys
is (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.As a noun electra is
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(wikipedia Tethys)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.