Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gastropodous mollusks, the sea-hares, having an oval oblong form with four tentacles, and somewhat resembling slugs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
sea slug of the genus Aplysia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Aplysiidae
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Examples
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To say that aplysia californicus is one of nature's least glamorous beasts would be too kind.
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A neuronal isoform of the aplysia CPEB has prion-like properties.
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This is probably one of the most archaic sensory receptors, which is present even in invertebrates such as the roundworm, leech or aplysia Time-surface temperature thresholds for thermal injury of Human skin.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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‘aplysia’ or the ‘unwashable’, from the circumstance that it cannot be cleaned.
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