Io
/ˈʌɪəʊ
/1 Greek Mythology A priestess of Hera who was loved by Zeus. Trying to protect her from the jealousy of Hera, Zeus turned Io into a heifer. Hera sent a gadfly to torture the heifer, which then fled across the world and finally reached Egypt, where Zeus turned her back into human form.
2 Astronomy One of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the fifth-closest satellite to the planet, being actively volcanic and coloured red and yellow with sulphur compounds (diameter 3,630 km).
Rhymes
- after-chroming
- afterclap
- after-comer
- after-coming
- aftercool
- aftercooled
- aftercooler
- aftercooling
- after-course
- after-crop
- after-cropping
- after-cure
- afterdamp
- afterday
- after-death
- afterdeck
- after-dinner
- afterdischarge
- after-drop
- after-effect
- afterfeather
- afterfeed
- after-frame
- after-game
- after-gathering