Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See sea slug.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as nudibranchiate.
- n. A member of the Nudibranchiata.
Wiktionary
- n. A term for any sea slug; specifically the animals belonging to the suborder Nudibranchia, the largest suborder of the order Opisthobranchia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
Etymologies
- Circa 19th Century, from Latin nudus ("naked") + branchia ("gills") (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Nūdibranchia, order name : nudi- + branchia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Thursday the discovery of Chromodoris fentoni, a type of shell-less snail known as a nudibranch pronounced "nu-da-brank".”
“Food, enemies, and company (the nudibranch is a social critter); it's all done by the rhinophores and the tentacles around the hood.”
“A nudibranch is a mollusk, a gastropod like snails and slugs.”
“Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).”
“The nudibranch family two blocks away answers a mighty summons from the past, desire for love like a roof overhead, light like light from stars long dead, like the afterlife of your feelings now you know.”
“Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines map.”
“Silver-and-blue nudibranch (undersea critter) is about the size of a quarter and attacks Portuguese men-of-war.”
“Cuthona behrensi, a beautiful white specimen with white-tipped rhinophores named for nudibranch specialist Dave Behrens, who supported the research effort, was found by Alicia Hermosillo under a rock at 13m depth at Los Frailes, Golfo de Chiriqui, Panama.”
“Stefen Chow for The Wall Street Journal Among the animals that can be found in the rock pools at low tide are crabs, sea squirts, nudibranch, octopuses, and, of course, starfish.”
“Visitors on their own must stick to the boardwalk, though National Parks does conduct guided tours onto the beach – one of the few places left in Singapore where you can hunt through rock pools to find crabs, starfish, sea squirts, nudibranch and even octopuses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nudibranch’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, brainmeat, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu and 65 more...
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I love you for your meaning
cassoulette, propinquity, nudibranch, gustatory, incorrigible, neophobic, detritus, bargainous, staycation, steampunk, catastrophizing, yeasayer and 38 more...
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Elizabeth's Words
milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu, zeitgeist and 73 more...
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Mollusca
fiery nudibranch, flamingo tongue s..., leopard slug, naked sea butterfly, inflated heelspli..., zoned paper bubble, shaggy coil, compound coil, crazed nudibranch, Vampyromorphida, fluffy nudibranch, Wunderpus photoge... and 69 more...
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Great Creature Names
pit viper, sidewinder, jaguarundi, sea squirt, copepods, gastropods, ratfish, mollusks, platypus, dinoflagellates, kookabura, coconut crab and 88 more...
Tweets
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utarcher Heard recently on the "Epic Win FTW" site, in regards to a sea creature that looks like a tiny alien. The species depicted there was identified by a commenter as glaucus atlanticus:
“Glaucus atlanticus is a species of medium-sized, floating, blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae.” Aug 4, 2010
sionnach I would just like to relate that on yesterday's (Nov 13th 2009) advanced proficiency test administered by the Cervantes Institute, one of the 'comprehension texts' was totally given over to the nudibranch. O, mejor dicho, el nudibranquio.
Who said hanging out on Wordie wasn't edumacational in a practical sense? Nov 14, 2009
frogapplause "Twirling and whirling in a crimson leotard and white tutu, the Spanish dancer (a large nudibranch, or seaslug) emerges to feed at night..."
--BBC North Yorkshire Aug 15, 2009
mollusque Nope. I'm a gill-less wonder. Aug 27, 2008
she :D
I love sproingy rhinophores, evidently. (You wouldn't happen to be a hypothetical nudibranch, would you, mollusque?) Aug 24, 2008
reesetee I love "sproingy." :-) Aug 24, 2008
mollusque Wonderful associations, she!
The front sproingy things are rhinophores and the rear sproingy things are gills, as modeled by this Chromodoris. Some nudibranchs also have cerata in between, which are more balloony than sproingy. Aug 24, 2008
super-logos The word coloratura is apt for such beauty. . .. Aug 22, 2008
bilby Prettiest comment ever on Wordie, she. Aug 22, 2008
reesetee Lovely, she! :-) Aug 22, 2008
she O, nudibranchs! Dream-spun mollusks!
You look like flowers , and forests! And psychedelic bonnets! Like hippopotamus gardens, and—and this ! With sproingy things!
You lay egg-spirals. You masquerade as the world's teensiest whales! I would build for us a house with walls made out of fishtanks..!
But I have garden slugs. :< Aug 22, 2008