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Definition of Tethys

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus.

2. Noun. Type genus of the family Aplysiidae.

Definition of Tethys

1. n. 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.

Medical Definition of Tethys

1. 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 coloured. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. An oyster, or a kind of ascidian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tethys

tete a tete Tete viruses teth tether tetherball tetherballs tethered tethered cord syndrome tethering tethers

teths tethydan Tethyidae tethyodea tethys (current term) Tethys Teton Range tetotum tetotums tetra

tetra- tetra-amelia tetrabasic tetrabasic acid tetrabenazine tetraboric tetraboric acid tetrabrachius tetrabranchiata tetrabranchiate

Literary usage of Tethys

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1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"Genus tethys Linnaeus. ... tethys CONCAVA Sowerby. Cat. No. ... USNM, contains two shells of a tethys, which I am unable to identify, from Port Alfred (Coll ..."

2. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"The 'Exotics' seem to have been derived from the far side of Neo-tethys 1 ... The Anatolia-Sirjan-Sanandaj microcontinent that separated Neo-tethys 1 and 2 ..."

3. The Opisthobranchiate M̲o̲l̲l̲u̲s̲c̲a̲ of the Branner-Agassiz Expedition to by Frank Mace MacFarland (1909)
"tethys cervina Dall and Simpson, The Mollusca of Porto Rico. ... One specimen of a tethys different from the foregoing, labeled "Sand Beach, Maceio, ..."

4. A Manual of the Mollusca; Or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1851)
"... in the earlier editions his " Systema Naturae," and recognising their resemblence to the bivalves, called animal of the latter " a tethys. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"tethys is confounded, by some mythologists, with her granddaughter Thetis, the wife of Peleus and ... The word tethys is poetically used to express the sea. ..."

6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1891)
"tethys n. Not in line at 7h 5™. Up from 7h iom to 7h 15™. Past at 7h 17™. Dion* s. ... tethys s. Not in line at 8h. In line between 8h 5m and 8h iom. ..."

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