Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sea hare

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: sea hare
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.

Example Sentences

"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?"

Etymology

From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.

Inflected Forms

sea hares (plural) seahare (alternative) sea-hare (alternative)

Synonyms

aplysia punctata

Questions

What does sea hare mean?: Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.
Where does sea hare come from?: From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.

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