English Explanatory Dictionary

sea angel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of a group of small swimming sea slugs of the suborder Gymnosomata

Word forms

sea angel sea angels

Etymology

Its flapping appendages (parapodia) suggest an angel's wings.

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