amalthea

name

1. (Greek)The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.
2. The third most distant moon of Jupiter.

noun

1. (obsolete)An aggregation of dry fruits within a calyx which does not become fleshy, as in Alchemilla or Sanguisorba.

   “The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.”