sea butterfly

English

Noun

sea butterfly (plural sea butterflies)

A small pelagic sea snail of the suborder Thecosomata.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 284:
  Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.

Translations

Thecosomata

German: Seeschmetterling m

Navajo: tąądee naʼałkǫ́ʼii

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