clione

noun

cli·​o·​ne

-ˌnē

capitalized

: a genus (the type of the family Clionidae) of naked pelagic pteropod mollusks that are abundant in the Arctic ocean and that constitute a large part of the food of the Greenland whale

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, irregular from Clio

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