Meaning of Amalthea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An aggregation of dry fruits within a calyx which does not become fleshy, as in Alchemilla or Sanguisorba.
   obsolete
2. The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.
   Greek
3. The third most distant moon of Jupiter.

Equivalents

Examples

“The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.”

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