Definitions for iapetus

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Iapetus(noun)

    (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology

Wiktionary

  1. Iapetus(ProperNoun)

    A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

  2. Iapetus(ProperNoun)

    The third largest moon of Saturn

  3. Iapetus(ProperNoun)

    An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.

  4. Origin: Ἰαπετός.


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