sea-haren.
1. A mollusc, Aplysia depilans (and other species), having an oval body with four tentacles.A rendering of the lepus marinus of Pliny, whose account is the source of most of the older English references. The designation is thought to be due to the resemblance of the two skinny lobes of the animal to the ears of a hare. Pliny's notion that the animal is venomous has no foundation.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Aplysidae
sea-hare1593
hare1601
sea-hare-fish1607
pissabed1759
sea-cat1759
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 161 Good against the empoisonment of the sea-hare.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §983 It hath beene anciently receiued, that the Sea-Hare hath an Antipathy with the Lungs, (if it commeth neare the Body,) and erodeth them.
1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 208 Several soft fishes, as sea hares, cuttle fish, and polypus.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 65 The cuttle-fish and the sea-hare.
2. The lumpfish: see lump n.2 rare.
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1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 390.
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