How to Use sea slug in a Sentence

sea slug

noun

• In this case, the sea slug’s head is the unit from which the rest grows.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
• This is wrong; Aplysia is a sea hare, a group within the sea slugs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• But what the sacoglossan sea slug does next puts it in a class of its own.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• The otters eat the crabs that feed on the sea slugs that consume the algae that kill the eelgrass.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• Elysia, the sea slug, being flat and green, looks like a living leaf.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
• The Spanish dancer is a large sea slug, not a jellyfish.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2016
• And Angela is still a beast, moving on to the final round, after trying to swallow the sea slugs whole.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The Cal Academy team focuses on a sea slug genus called Hypselodoris.
  — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2018
• So do some invertebrates like fruit flies and sea slugs.
  — Popular Science, 16 May 2020
• Glaucus Atlanticus is a feathery-like species of sea slug, and is also known as the blue angel.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• The pair of sea slugs then swims through the water side-by-side in a flowing mating ritual that resembles a dance.
  — National Geographic, 7 Sep. 2017
• On a beach vacation, a venomous sea slug probably isn’t high on your must-see list.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
• See the head and the body of a sea slug move spontaneously, 3 days after separation.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• But rainbow nudibranchs, a small colorful species of sea slug, lie in wait, looking for a nighttime meal.
  — Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
• And why does the embryo of a marine organism like a sea slug develop differently from that of a sea urchin?
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
• The persistence of sea slugs To begin with, much of the coverage has claimed that memories were transferred between two snails.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• With over 3,000 different species on record, the nudibranch is an extremely versatile kind of sea slug.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• Giant groupers flourish among the rocks, a psychedelic purple nudibranch sea slug clings to an outcrop, and a pair of rays skate along the undisturbed sandy bottom.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
• Sea otters returning to seagrass beds in estuaries feed on crabs that in turn eat sea slugs that eat algae.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 8 May 2018
• The same concentration that knocks out a person will anesthetize a sea slug or an amoeba, and will even paralyze a fern that normally curls up when touched, Dr. Shafer said.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• In another Craghead drawing, the president appears as a wrinkled sea slug with tits, a few hairs coming off the top of his head, and two stubby arms ending in tiny hands.
  — Sarah Boxer, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2018
• According to Fisher, the Blue Glacus creatures are also known as blue dragons and are a form of a sea slug known as Glaucus atlanticus that swims upside down to show off its colors.
  — Priscilla Aguirre, Chron, 8 Apr. 2022
• Sea angels’ lovely outward appearance and name belie their status as a kind of sea slug, related to other forms of snails in the gastropod class.
  — National Geographic, 7 Sep. 2017
• For example, the Hilton’s nudibranch, a predatory sea slug, expanded northward during the Blob, which led to a decline in local nudibranchs.
  — Erica Nielsen, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021
• Seventeen new species of sea slug have been added to the nudibranch family tree courtesy of efforts from a group of researchers at the California Academy of Sciences.
  — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2018
• The year in ocean news brought about quite a few surprises, including the discovery of a self-decapitating sea slug and the return to popularity of sea shanties.
  — Danielle Hall and Alia N. Payne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
• Gosliner is known for a number of discoveries regarding sea slugs.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
• At night, underwater spotlights attract squid, octopus, and blazing red Spanish dancer sea slugs that ripple past the glass.
  — Karen Carmichael, National Geographic, 7 June 2019
• Jake’s disaffected teen son befriends a lonely tulkun, a whale analogue that more closely resembles a giant sea slug.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2022
• Despite its squishy stature, the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica is a killer.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2013

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