"sea slug" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sea slugs [plural]
Etymology: From sea + slug. Etymology templates: {{com|en|sea|slug}} sea + slug Head templates: {{en-noun}} sea slug (plural sea slugs)
  1. A common name for any marine invertebrate with a visual resemblance to terrestrial slugs (land slugs). Categories (lifeform): Nudibranchs Synonyms: sea-slug Related terms: nudibranch, sea hare, gastropod Translations (marine mollusc): 海蛞蝓 (hǎikuòyú) (Chinese Mandarin), merietana (Finnish), ウミウシ (umiushi) (Japanese), rori (Maori), lesma-do-mar [feminine] (Portuguese), lesma-marinha [feminine] (Portuguese), ทากทะเล (tâak-tá-lee) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-sea_slug-en-noun-JOTePik7 Disambiguation of Nudibranchs: 68 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 63 37 Disambiguation of 'marine mollusc': 57 43
  2. Any soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks of the order Nudibranchia. Translations (mollusk of the order Nudibranchia): vapaakiduskotilo (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-sea_slug-en-noun-2GpW-woi Disambiguation of 'mollusk of the order Nudibranchia': 10 90

Inflected forms

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