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Tethys   Listen
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Tethys  n.  (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.





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"Tethys" Quotes from Famous Books



... her deep design Imperial Juno. Give me those desires, That love-enkindling power by which thou sway'st Immortal hearts and mortal, all alike; 235 For to the green earth's utmost bounds I go, To visit there the parent of the Gods, Oceanus, and Tethys his espoused, Mother of all. They kindly from the hands Of Rhea took, and with parental care 240 Sustain'd and cherish'd me, what time from heaven The Thunderer hurled down Saturn, and beneath The earth fast bound him and the barren Deep. Them ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer


Words linked to "Tethys" :   Greek mythology, family Aplysiidae, Aplysia punctata, mollusk genus, Aplysiidae, Aplysia, genus Tethus, sea hare, family Tethyidae


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