معنی کلمه :‌ bathybius

Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] "I have seen him trip it tithly." Beau. & Fl.

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.