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nudibranch

(n): any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
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3 days ago mollusque said:

Nope. I'm a gill-less wonder.

5 days ago she said:

:D

I love sproingy rhinophores, evidently. (You wouldn't happen to be a hypothetical nudibranch, would you, mollusque?)

5 days ago reesetee said:

I love "sproingy." :-)

6 days ago mollusque said:

Wonderful associations, she!

The front sproingy things are rhinophores and the rear sproingy things are gills, as modeled by these Chromodoris. Some nudibranchs also have cerata in between, which are more balloony than sproingy.

7 days ago logos said:

The word coloratura is apt for such beauty. . ..

8 days ago bilby said:

Prettiest comment ever on Wordie, she.

8 days ago reesetee said:

Lovely, she! :-)

8 days ago she said:

O, nudibranchs! Dream-spun mollusks!
You look like flowers, and forests! And psychedelic bonnets! Like hippopotamus gardens, and—and this! With sproingy things!
You lay egg-spirals. You masquerade as the world's teensiest whales! I would build for us a house with walls made out of fishtanks..!

But I have garden slugs. :<

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