: transportation that is over land instead of on water or in the air . Take ground transportation from the airport to your hotel .
MÃ©tis is a French term referring to children of ethnically mixed unions. In North America, MÃ©tis (with capitalization) are members of ethnic groups indigenous to Canada and parts of the United States who trace their descent to Indigenous peoples of the Americas and French, English, and Scottish.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Metis. Metis, also known as Jupiter XVI, is the innermost moon of Jupiter. It was discovered in 1979 in images taken by Voyager 1, and was named in 1983 after the first wife of Zeus, Metis. Additional observations made between early 1996 and September 2003 by the Galileo spacecraft allowed the surface of the moon to be imaged.