Bathybius

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

“Bathybius”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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