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Tethys
Te′thys
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] an oyster, or [GREEK] a kind of ascidian.]
(Zool.)
A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
Definition 2024
Tethys
Tethys
English
Proper noun
Tethys
- (Greek mythology) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
- (geology) A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 106:
- Much of the Tethys was shallow and warm during the Mesozoic, and full of life, a marine paradise of sorts: ammonites and sharks thrived, and are now preserved as fossils that date the rocks.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 106:
- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
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mythology
moon of Saturn