sea hare
English
Alternative forms
- seahare, sea-hare
Etymology
From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.
Noun
- 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
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Further reading
sea hare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Anaspidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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