Bathybius
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin, from Ancient Greek. See bathy-. Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley.
Noun edit
Bathybius (uncountable)
- (zoology, obsolete) A gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.
References edit
- “Bathybius”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.