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sea slug

noun

  1. a nudibranch.


sea slug

noun

  1. any of various shell-less marine gastropod molluscs, esp those of the order Nudibranchia See nudibranch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


sea slug

  1. Any of various colorful marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia, lacking a shell and gills but having fringelike projections that serve as respiratory organs.
  2. Also called nudibranch


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sea slug1

First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences

That is, if you’re one of two kinds of rippling, green-tinged sea slugs.

“As far as we know,” Yusa says, this is the first report of such a dramatic “whole-body” regeneration in any sea slug.

The head of a sea slug can take several hours to rip itself loose from its body, so Mitoh and Yusa doubt that de-heading helps when predators attack.

Instead, a detachable body could give the sea slug a drastic, but effective, way of dealing with parasites.

On close inspection, the researchers found that sea slugs have a slight groove looped on the back of the head region that seems to work as a break-here zone.

On the reefs of the Southern Ocean is found a kind of sea-slug termed the Beche-de-mer.

A more beautiful example of a phosphorescent mollusk is presented by a sea-slug called Phyllirho bucephala.

Sea-cucumbers, as they are popularly called, are also known by the name of trepang and sea-slug.

Tall he stood in his garment of black, facing the Great Sea Slug, and lifting on high his hand with the crucifix in it.

To touch him was death, for Great Sea Slug had given him a feast and put upon him the white tapa, emblem of sacredness.

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