bathybius
/bә'θibiәs/
📖 中文释义
- 深水类生物
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. 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.