Crossword-Solution: BATIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The Avicennia, the Batis, some small Euphorbia and grasses, by the intertwining of their roots, fix the moving sands.

His angry fretfulness at being checked by so small a force was only equalled by his cruelty when he had overcome it; he tied Batis by the heels to his chariot, and dragged him round the walls of the city, as Achilles had dragged the body of Hector.

When a Bororo man was angry with another he would not descend to vulgar language, but he generally armed himself with a bony spike of that deadly fish, the _raja_ (_Rhinobates batis_) or _mehro_, as it was called in the Bororo language, which he fastened to a wristlet.

Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds.

And being a man of this character, he gave his sister Batis in marriage to Idomeneus; and he himself had Leontium, the Attic courtesan, for his concubine.