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
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from nudi- + -branchia
- life zone
- life's ambition
- life's work
- life-affirming
- life-and-death
- life-care
- life-form
- life-giving
- life-of-man
- life-of-mans
- life-or-death
- life-size
- life-sized
- life-support
- life-support system
- life-sustaining
- life-threat
- life-threatening
- lifebelts
- lifeblood
- lifebloods
- lifeboat
- lifeboat falls
- lifeboat gun
- lifeboatman