Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tethys

Tethys , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} an oyster, or {not transcribed} a kind of ascidian.]

(Zoology) 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.