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tethys
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tethys has 2 senses
- tethys(n = noun.person) Array - (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus; Array is a kind of titaness
- tethys(n = noun.animal) aplysia, genus aplysia, genus tethus - type genus of the family Aplysiidae; Array is a kind of mollusk genus
is a member of aplysiidae, family aplysiidae, family tethyidae, tethyidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
tethys, n. [NL., fr. Gr. an oyster, or a kind of ascidian.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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