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# nudibranch

«nudibranch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A kind of sea slug, often brightly coloured, with no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a nudibranch, nudibranchs)

### meaning for a pupil

A kind of sea slug, often brightly coloured, with no shell, that lives in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A science word about sea life: nudibranchs live on reefs and rocks and come in amazing colours and patterns. Their bright colours warn predators they taste bad or are poisonous; some even store the stings of the animals they eat.

### examples

- Divers love spotting colourful nudibranchs on the reef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x1)
- A nudibranch is a sea slug with no shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x2)
- This nudibranch is bright purple with orange tips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x3)
- Nudibranchs' bright colours warn fish to stay away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x4)
- We saw a photo of a nudibranch in our ocean book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x5)
- Some nudibranchs eat jellyfish and keep their stings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x6)
- There are thousands of kinds of nudibranch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/#x7)

### note

Pronounced "NEW-dee-brank" ("ch" sounds like "k"). Means "naked gills" in Latin and Greek: their gills are on the outside. Plural "nudibranchs".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nudibranch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nudibranch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.