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Meaning of sea butterfly | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of the suborder Thecosomata of small pelagic sea snails.

Equivalents

Deutsch Seeschmetterling

Examples

“Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

sea cabbage sea calf sea campion sea can sea canary sea cap