Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
nudibranchiate . - noun A member of the Nudibranchiata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A term for any
sea slug ; specifically the animals belonging to the suborder Nudibranchia, the largest suborder of the order Opisthobranchia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Thursday the discovery of Chromodoris fentoni, a type of shell-less snail known as a nudibranch pronounced "nu-da-brank".
The Seattle Times 2011
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Food, enemies, and company (the nudibranch is a social critter); it's all done by the rhinophores and the tentacles around the hood.
BC Bloggers Wanderin' Weeta 2010
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A nudibranch is a mollusk, a gastropod like snails and slugs.
BC Bloggers 2010
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Food, enemies, and company (the nudibranch is a social critter); it's all done by the rhinophores and the tentacles around the hood.
BC Bloggers 2010
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A nudibranch is a mollusk, a gastropod like snails and slugs.
BC Bloggers Wanderin' Weeta 2010
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Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Most of my search for new nudibranch species over the last two decades has focused on the reefs of the Philippines (map).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
she commented on the word nudibranch
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. :<
August 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word nudibranch
Lovely, she! :-)
August 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word nudibranch
Prettiest comment ever on Wordie, she.
August 22, 2008
super-logos commented on the word nudibranch
The word coloratura is apt for such beauty. . ..
August 22, 2008
mollusque commented on the word nudibranch
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.
August 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word nudibranch
I love "sproingy." :-)
August 24, 2008
she commented on the word nudibranch
:D
I love sproingy rhinophores, evidently. (You wouldn't happen to be a hypothetical nudibranch, would you, mollusque?)
August 25, 2008
mollusque commented on the word nudibranch
Nope. I'm a gill-less wonder.
August 27, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word nudibranch
"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
August 16, 2009
sionnach commented on the word nudibranch
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?
November 15, 2009
utarcher commented on the word nudibranch
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.”
August 4, 2010