Bathybius

noun

Bathybius

noun

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

Biology, Natural sciences, 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.

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