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Definition of TETHYS

Tethys
Tethys Te"thys, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? an oyster, or ? a kind of ascidian.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Meaning of TETHYS from wikipedia

- Look up Tethys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tethys or Tethis may refer to: Tethys (database), an online knowledge management system about the environmental...
- The Tethys Ocean (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛ-/ TEETH-iss, TETH-; Gr****: Τηθύς Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during...
- In Gr**** mythology, Tethys (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛ-/; Ancient Gr****: Τηθύς, romanized: Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Ur**** and Gaia, a sister and wife of the...
- Giovanni Domenico C****ini in 1684, and is named after the titan Tethys of Gr**** mythology. Tethys has a low density of 0.98 g/cm3, the lowest of all the major...
- The Paleo-Tethys or Palaeo-Tethys Ocean was an ocean located along the northern margin of the paleocontinent Gondwana that started to open during the...
- regions and surrounded by the superocean Panthal****a and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans. Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed...
- The Tethys Trench was an ancient oceanic trench that existed in the northern part of the Tethys Ocean during the middle Mesozoic to early Cenozoic eras...
- Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. Oce**** married his sister Tethys, and was by her the father of numerous sons, the...
- mythology. It is also designated as Saturn XIII or Tethys B. Telesto is co-orbital with Tethys, residing in Tethys' leading Lagrangian point (L4). This relationship...
- when the northern region of the Tethys Ocean (Peri-Tethys) was separated from the Mediterranean region of the Tethys realm due to the formation of the...