Bathybius

English

Etymology

Latin, from Ancient Greek. See bathy-. Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley.

Noun

Bathybius (uncountable)

  1. (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Bathybius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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