TETHYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tethys mean? 

• TETHYS (noun)
  The noun TETHYS has 2 senses:

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

2. type genus of the family Aplysiidae

  Familiarity information: TETHYS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TETHYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Titaness ((Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant goddesses who were offspring of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth) in ancient mythology)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Aplysiidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aplysia; genus Aplysia; genus Tethus; Tethys

Hypernyms ("Tethys" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Tethys"):

Aplysia punctata; sea hare (naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles)

Holonyms ("Tethys" is a member of...):

Aplysiidae; family Aplysiidae; family Tethyidae; Tethyidae (sea hares)

 Context examples 

The collision of India with Asia closed off an ancient sea called the Tethys, where low-oxygen waters were formed, changing the oxygen and nitrogen balance of the oceans.

(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)

Possibilities being studied include ideas that the reddish material is exposed ice with chemical impurities, or the result of outgassing from inside Tethys.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

The color images for this observation, obtained in April 2015, are the first to show large northern areas of Tethys under the illumination and viewing conditions necessary to see the arcs clearly.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks are visible on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)