sea hare

noun

any gastropod of the order Aplysiacea, comprising large marine sluglike mollusks with a reduced, internal shell.

sea hare

any of various marine gastropods of the order Aplysiomorpha (or Anaspidea ), esp Aplysia punctata, having a soft body with an internal shell and two pairs of earlike tentacles

First recorded in 1585–95

Using a sea hare as our teacher, he showed me how these squidgy animals that look like luminous slugs were always close to their eggs.

The sea hare, Aplysia, laid its eggs in the aquarium jars during the middle and late summer.

The flesh of a Foxe sod and layed to afore bitten by a Sea hare, it cureth and healeth the same.

Indeed I actually showed this small fish, which you call a sea-hare, to many who stood by.

For, as a matter of fact, he has not as yet67 ever come across a sea-hare.

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