metis

noun

In Greek myth, a goddess personifying prudence, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and first wife of Zeus.

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The ninth of the planetoids in the order of discovery, first observed by Graham at Markree, Ireland, in April, 1848.

noun

A genus of crustaceans.

noun

A genus of mollusks.

noun

practical intelligence; street smarts.

noun

A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent. Often uncapitalized.

noun

a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry