Word.ws English Dictionary

Rheic

Rheic adjective: of or relating to a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north.

Adjective

Rheic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north.

Origin of Rheic

From Rhea (“a Titan in Greek mythology”) + -ic, for her being the sister of Iapetus (after whom had previously been named the predecessor of the Atlantic Ocean, for being the father of its eponym Atlas).

Phrases with Rheic

Questions about Rheic

What does Rheic mean?
Rheic means of or relating to a Paleozoic ocean between the large continent Gondwana to the south and the microcontinents Avalonia and others to the north.
What part of speech is Rheic?
Rheic is an adjective.

Words near Rheic in the dictionary

  1. rhegmaglypts
  2. rhegmas
  3. rhegmatogeneous
  4. rhegmatogenous
  5. rhegmatogenously
  6. Rheic
  7. rheic acid
  8. rheid
  9. Rheidol
  10. rheids
  11. Rheims

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Rheic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Rheic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rheic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.