sea hare

English

a black sea hare Aplysia fasciata

Alternative forms

seahare, sea-hare

Etymology

From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.

Noun

sea hare (plural sea hares)

Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  Pliny saith that there are certaine Seahares in India that to us are poison, and we bane to them; so that we die if we but touch them; now whether is man or the Sea-hare poison?

Translations

large marine gastropod mollusc

Albanian: lepur deti m
Breton: buoc'h-vor (br) f
Catalan: llebre de mar f
Dutch: zeehaas m
French: lièvre de mer (fr) m
Galician: bigornia (gl) f
German: Seehase (de) m
Hawaiian: kualakai
Italian: lepre marina f
Japanese: アメフラシ (ja) (amefurashi)
Navajo: chʼoshłóóʼ bideetsohígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjøhare m
Spanish: liebre de mar f
Swedish: sjöhare (sv) c
Welsh: môr-geinach f

Further reading

sea hare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anaspidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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