Europa

Eu·ro·pa  (y-rp)

n.

1. Greek Mythology A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus, who had assumed the form of a white bull, and by him the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon.

2. One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the sixth in distance from the planet. It was originally sighted by Galileo.

---

[Latin Eurpa, from Greek Eurp.]

---

Europa  (y-rp)

One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the sixth in distance from the planet. It was originally sighted by Galileo. See Note at moon.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Europa - the 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites; covered with a smooth shell of frozen water