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sea butterflies

sea butterflies is the plural of sea butterfly.

Meaning of sea butterfly

Noun

sea butterfly (plural sea butterflies)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    pteropod

Questions about sea butterflies

What is sea butterflies the plural of?
Sea butterflies is the plural of sea butterfly.

Words near sea butterflies in the dictionary

  1. sea bug
  2. sea bugs
  3. sea bunnies
  4. sea bunny
  5. sea burdock
  6. sea butterflies
  7. sea butterfly
  8. sea button
  9. sea buttons
  10. sea cabbage
  11. sea cabbages

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