galatea

IPA: gæɫʌtˈiʌ

(textiles) A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.
(Greek mythology) Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
(Greek mythology) Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.
(Greek mythology) Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.
(astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
(astronomy) 74 Galatea, a main belt asteroid.
A settlement in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, named after HMS Galatea.

Examples of "galatea" in Sentences

It can be purchased by the yard and it's of galatea which is cheap.
During his own early fieldwork in that part of the world, Mayr had studied the distribution of T. galatea and its allied species.
Mayr postulated that, sometime in the past, a few pairs of Tanysiptera galatea happened to reach this little satellite from the mainland.
They became T. carolinae, distinct from T. galatea in having a blue breast instead of a white breast, as well as legs and feet of bright yellow.
As an example, he mentioned the paradise-kingfisher group of species—Tanysiptera galatea and others—on mainland New Guinea and its satellite islands.
T. galatea itself occupied New Guinea proper, having diversified there into only three subspecies, despite the great heterogeneity of available habitats.
Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally.