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)

1. 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