Associations to the word «Bathybius»

Wiktionary

BATHYBIUS, noun. (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.

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.