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Any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
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nudibranch
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Wikipedia
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Nudibranchs are a group of soft-bodied , marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms. Currently, about 2,300 valid species of nudibranchs are known. ...
Wiktionary
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n. A term for any sea slug; specifically the animals belonging to the suborder ''(taxlink Nudibranchia clade noshow=1)'', a clade within the informal group ''(taxlink Opisthobranchia group noshow=1)''.
WordNet
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n. any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body [syn: sea slug ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nudibranch \Nu"di*branch\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata. -- n. One of the Nudibranchiata.
Usage examples of nudibranch.
Terri saw starfish of every color, green sea cucumbers, frilly yellow nudibranch slugs, and a red gumboot chiton.
He tried to keep his bearing on the reef, let his eye bounce from coral fan to anemone to nudibranch to eel, like visual stepping-stones, because to his left there was no reference, nothing but empty blue, and when he looked there he felt like a child watching for a strange face at the window, so convinced and terrified it would come that any shape, any movement, any play of light becomes a horror.
Sarah blinked and turned to watch a spotted nudibranch creep along the bottom of the tank that stood beside the microscope.
Preposterous crabs and willowy nudibranchs wandered about, scavenging food and accomplishing necessary fish business.
He spotted one advanced variety of pseudoworm, far more spectacular than any of the Terran nudibranchs that were its closest visual relative, fluttering in and out among the reef formations.