Oasis
The Greek form of an Egyptian word which was used to denote an island in the sea of sand of the great Libyan Desert.
These oases are preserved from the shifting sands by steep hills of limestone round them, and watered by springs, which make them fertile and habitable.
Oceanides and Oceanitides. Sea nymphs, daughters of Oceanus, from whom they received their name. According to Apollodorus they were three thousand in number, while Hesiod speaks of them as consisting of forty-one.