Amalthea
Proper noun
  1. (Greek mythology) 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.
  2. (astronomy) The third most distant moon of Jupiter.
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