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Webster 1913 Edition
Bathybius
‖
Ba-thyb′i-us
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
βαθύσ
deep + βίοσ
life] (Zool.)
A name given by
Prof. Huxley
to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.