cybele

[Lat. Cybele; Gr. Kybelē. Sce def. 1.] 1. Cla . Myth.: A Phrygian godde , first worshiped at Pe inus, then throughout all Asia Minor, next in Greece, and finally, from A. U. C. 547, at Rome, where she was called the Idean mother. Her rites in Greece coalesced with those of Rhea. ( Liddell & Scott.) 2. Astron .: An asteroid, the sixty-fifth found, discovered by Tempel on March 1, 1861. 3. Zool.: A genus of Trilobites, family Encrinuride. 4. Bot .: An old genus of Proteads, now called Steno carpus.