sea hare

noun

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

sea hare

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sea hare¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

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.

From Popular-Science

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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