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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See sea slug.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as nudibranchiate.
  2. n. A member of the Nudibranchiata.

Wiktionary

  1. 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

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body

Etymologies

  1. Circa 19th Century, from Latin nudus ("naked") + branchia ("gills") (Wiktionary)
  2. From New Latin Nūdibranchia, order name : nudi- + branchia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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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

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