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

¦⸗⸗¦braŋkēən

adjective

nudibranchiate

-ēə̇t

-ēˌāt

adjective or noun

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from nudi- + -branchia

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