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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  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 f
Dutch: zeehaas m
French: lièvre de mer (fr) m
German: Seehase (de) m

Italian: lepre marina f
Navajo: chʼoshłóóʼ bideetsohígíí
Spanish: liebre de mar f
Swedish: sjöhare (sv) c

Further reading

sea hare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anaspidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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