Word.ws English Dictionary

aeolidacean

aeolidacean noun: a sea slug of the suborder Aeolidacea.

Noun

aeolidacean (plural aeolidaceans)

  1. A sea slug of the suborder Aeolidacea.
    • Aposematic nudibranchs had to have their «sting», like wasps, but, in the early 1970s, knowledge of these was limited to the cnidocysts of aeolidaceans, acid or repellent secretions from some testacean groups and the ink from aplysiaceans.2007, Unity in Diversity: Reflections on Ecology after the Legacy of Ramon Margalef

Forms of aeolidacean

pluralaeolidaceans

Questions about aeolidacean

What does aeolidacean mean?
Aeolidacean means a sea slug of the suborder Aeolidacea.
What part of speech is aeolidacean?
Aeolidacean is a noun.
What is the plural of aeolidacean?
The plural of aeolidacean is aeolidaceans.

Words near aeolidacean in the dictionary

  1. aeolianitic
  2. aeolians
  3. aeolic
  4. Aeolic Greek
  5. aeolid
  6. aeolidacean
  7. aeolidaceans
  8. aeolidiid
  9. aeolidiids
  10. aeolids
  11. aeolina

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aeolidacean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “aeolidacean.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aeolidacean. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.