sea mouse

See also: seamouse

English

Etymology

Perhaps because it resembles a bedraggled mouse when washed up on shore.

Noun

sea mouse (plural sea mice)

1. A marine polychaete worm (genus Aphrodita) with the body covered in a dense mat of setae.
2. The dunlin.

Translations

a marine worm

• Catalan: ratolí de mar m
• Esperanto: afrodito
• Finnish: merihiiri
• Maori: kutukutu
• Turkish: deniz faresi