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sea hares

sea hares is the plural of sea hare.

Meaning of sea hare

Noun

sea hare (plural sea hares)

  1. Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.
    • 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?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about sea hares

What is sea hares the plural of?
Sea hares is the plural of sea hare.

Words near sea hares in the dictionary

  1. sea hag
  2. sea hags
  3. sea hair
  4. sea hairs
  5. sea hare
  6. sea hares
  7. sea heart
  8. sea hearts
  9. sea heath
  10. sea heaths
  11. sea hedgehog

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