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Bathybius
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English
Etymology
en la -, from en grc -. See en bathy-. Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley.
Noun
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en 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
ta:bathybius