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sea butterfly

sea butterfly noun: any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.

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

Synonyms of sea butterfly

Forms of sea butterfly

pluralsea butterflies

Questions about sea butterfly

What does sea butterfly mean?
Sea butterfly means any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.
What part of speech is sea butterfly?
Sea butterfly is a noun.
What is the plural of sea butterfly?
The plural of sea butterfly is sea butterflies.

Words near sea butterfly in the dictionary

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

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