sea butterfly en · NOUN
Meanings
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Any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.
Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 284:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sea butterflies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (4)
nv tąądee naʼałkǫ́ʼii (Thecosomata) · pl motyl morski (Thecosomata) · is vængjasnigill (Thecosomata) · de Seeschmetterling (Thecosomata)