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What does Leda mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Leda? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The wife of Tyndareus and mother of Helen, Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux hatched from eggs as a result of a seduction by Zeus in the guise of a swan
  2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.
  3. (astronomy) 38 Leda, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A mythological queen and the mother of Helen of Troy. Also see Alida.
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In eastern Canada, the 1663 earthquake in the St. Lawrence region triggered many landslides in Leda Clay.
There is a copy, too, of Michelangelo's lost cartoon for the uncompleted Battle of Cascina fresco, and another copy of Leonardo's lost Leda.
He had an appointment to talk to Leda Crannon, but he had no intention of broadcasting it.
Disgruntled and angry, Michelangelo gave the Leda and its cartoon to his pupil Antonio Mini, who took both images to France.
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby have produced an excellent primer on the subject so we will use that as a point of reference throughout this post.
What really matters, Leda seems to say, is what we are inside while outside there is something we don't know and dissembles us.

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