Nudibranchia
plural noun
Nu·di·bran·chia
: a suborder of Opisthobranchia comprising numerous highly varied marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and without true ctenidia and typically having a body suggesting that of a slug usually with brightly colored often branching respiratory cerata on the back
nudibranchian
adjective
¦⸗⸗¦braŋkēən
nudibranchiate
adjective or noun
-ēə̇t
-ēˌāt
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