bathybius
bә'θibiәs
基本解释
深水类生物
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.
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