"rhea" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹiːə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rhea.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rheas [plural]
Rhymes: -iːə Etymology: From Rhea (“the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”), from Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa). Etymology templates: {{m|en|Rhea||the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology}} Rhea (“the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”), {{uder|en|grc|Ῥέα}} Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rhea (plural rheas)
  1. A large flightless bird of the genus Rhea, native to South America. Categories (lifeform): Nettle family plants, Ratites Derived forms: American rhea (taxonomic: Rhea americana), common rhea (taxonomic: Rhea americana), Darwin's rhea (taxonomic: Rhea pennata), greater rhea (taxonomic: Rhea americana), grey rhea, lesser rhea (taxonomic: Rhea pennata), puna rhea (taxonomic: Rhea tarapacensis) Translations (flightless bird): ৰিয়া চৰাই (ria sorai) (Assamese), ñandú [masculine] (Asturian), nyandú [masculine] (Catalan), ᎠᎺᎵᎨ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (amelige gvna utana) (Cherokee), ᎵᎠ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (lia gvna utana) (Cherokee), 鶆䴈 (Chinese Mandarin), 𱉵𬸩 (lái'ǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), nandoe [masculine] (Dutch), nanduo (Esperanto), reao (Esperanto), nandu (Finnish), nandou [masculine] (French), Nandu [masculine] (German), nandu (Hungarian), nandù [masculine] (Italian), レア (rea) (Japanese), 레아 (rea) (Korean), Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ tsídiitsoh (Navajo), nhandu (Old Tupi), nandu (Polish), ema [feminine] (Portuguese), nhandu [masculine] (Portuguese), nandu [masculine] (Portuguese), suri (Quechua), nandu [masculine] (Romanian), нанду (nandu) (Russian), ñandú [masculine] (Spanish), nandu (Swahili), nandu [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rhea-en-noun-gpDEoXc5 Disambiguation of Nettle family plants: 72 28 Disambiguation of Ratites: 79 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} rhea
  1. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.
    Sense id: en-rhea-en-noun-jakXmOie
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.