Aplysia definitions

Aplysia

1) Genus aplysia 2) Genus tethus 3) Mollusk genus 4) Tethys
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Aplysia is a genus of medium-sized to extremely large sea slugs, specifically sea hares, which are one clade of large sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks. The general description of sea hares can be found in the article on the superfamily Aplysioidea. These benthic herbivorous sea hares can become rather large compared with most other mollusks. T...
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Aplysia

• (n.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.
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Aplysia

(from the article `mollusk`) ...provide camouflage, or to inhibit the predator`s sense of smell. For example, the ink in cephalopods, the luminous cloud secreted by some deep-sea ... ...per row with a total of 25,000 denticles; sacoglossans have only one longitudinal row of teeth. In terms of feeding, opisthobranchs are extremely ... ...
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Aplysia

<marine biology> Opisthobranch mollusc with reduced shell, favourite source of ganglia for neurophysiological study. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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Aplysia

(= sea hare) Opisthobranch mollusc with reduced shell; favourite source of ganglia for neurophysiological study.
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Aplysia

A·plys'i·a noun [ Greek ... a dirty sponge, from ... unwashed; 'a priv. + ... to wash.] (Zoology) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata ; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some dis...
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