SEA SLUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea slug mean? 

• SEA SLUG (noun)
  The noun SEA SLUG has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SEA SLUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA SLUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nudibranch; sea slug

Hypernyms ("sea slug" is a kind of...):

gastropod; univalve (a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea slug"):

Hermissenda crassicornis (a kind of sea slug)

Holonyms ("sea slug" is a member of...):

Nudibranchia; order Nudibranchia (comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug)

 Context examples 

PM02734 is a derivative of a natural marine compound extracted from the sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia rufescens.

(Elisidepsin, NCI Thesaurus)

Feet from the raw bars and seashell-colored condominiums of Florida's Cedar Key, NSF-supported researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and California State University discovered a new species of sea slug that is a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)