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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of gastropodous mollusks, the sea-hares, having an oval oblong form with four tentacles, and somewhat resembling slugs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any sea slug of the genus Aplysia

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Aplysiidae

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Examples

  • To say that aplysia californicus is one of nature's least glamorous beasts would be too kind.

    THE QUEST FOR MEMORY DRUGS 2007

  • A neuronal isoform of the aplysia CPEB has prion-like properties.

    Of Prions and People - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • This is probably one of the most archaic sensory receptors, which is present even in invertebrates such as the roundworm, leech or aplysia Time-surface temperature thresholds for thermal injury of Human skin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010

  • aplysia’ or the ‘unwashable’, from the circumstance that it cannot be cleaned.

    The History of Animals 2002

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