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Definition of Nudibranch
1. Noun. Any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body.
Generic synonyms: Gastropod, Univalve
Group relationships: Nudibranchia, Order Nudibranchia
Specialized synonyms: Hermissenda Crassicornis
Definition of Nudibranch
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.
Definition of Nudibranch
1. Noun. A term for any sea slug; specifically the animals belonging to the suborder ''Nudibranchia'', the largest suborder of the order ''Opisthobranchia''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nudibranch
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Medical Definition of Nudibranch
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nudibranch
Literary usage of Nudibranch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"A species of Trichodina referred to but not described by Moebius and Meyer in
their ' Fauna of Kiel,' as occurring on another nudibranch, /Eolis alba, ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"Revision of the Families of nudibranch Mollusks, with the description of a new
Genus of ... nudibranch ..."
3. The Oyster, Clam, and Other Common Mollusks by Alpheus Hyatt (1880)
"54), and then the nudibranch* (Fig. 28). * This is, therefore, a form which has
retrograded or lost the normal characteristics of its type more even than ..."
4. The Journal of Malacology by Walter Edward Collinge (1893)
"The tubercles are uniformly distributed all over the back of the nudibranch,
except on the dark-brown patches, where they are more scanty. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"A rather large number of older investigators have worked upon nudibranch ...
Love'n (1839) described a number of nudibranch larvae together with those of ..."
6. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"Quite as valuable as the color-resemblance, in protecting the nudibranch against
... The class represented by the snails, the slug, and the nudibranch is ..."
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