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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SEA MOUSE

So called because of its appearance.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA MOUSE

sea mouse play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA MOUSE

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Sea mouse is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEA MOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sea mouse

Sea mouse

The sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, is a marine polychaete worm found in the North Atlantic, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. The sea mouse normally lies buried head-first in the sand. It has been found at depths of over 2,000 metres.

Definition of sea mouse in the English dictionary

The definition of sea mouse in the dictionary is any of several large polychaete worms of the genus Aphrodite and related genera, having a broad flattened body covered dorsally with a dense mat of iridescent hairlike chaetae.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA MOUSE

sea level
sea lift
sea lily
sea lion
sea loch
Sea Lord
sea mat
sea mew
sea mile
sea milkwort
Sea of Azov
Sea of Galilee
Sea of Marmara
Sea of Okhotsk
sea onion
sea otter
sea pen
sea perch
sea pink
sea power

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA MOUSE

cat-and-mouse
deer mouse
dormouse
fat mouse
field mouse
fieldmouse
harvest mouse
house
house mouse
jumping mouse
meadow mouse
mouse
optical mouse
play cat and mouse
pocket mouse
rearmouse
smouse
titmouse
white-footed mouse
woodmouse
zamouse

Synonyms and antonyms of sea mouse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sea mouse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA MOUSE

Find out the translation of sea mouse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sea mouse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea mouse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海鼠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ratón mar
570 millions of speakers

English

sea mouse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्र माउस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الماوس البحر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

море мыши
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rato mar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমুদ্র মাউস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

souris de la mer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tikus laut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meer Maus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

海のマウス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바다 마우스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mouse segara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuột biển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் சுட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्रातील माऊस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz faresi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Mouse mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

morze mysz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

море миші
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mouse-ul mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θάλασσα του ποντικιού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

see muis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hav mus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sea ​​mus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sea mouse

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA MOUSE»

The term «sea mouse» is used very little and occupies the 173.418 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA MOUSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sea mouse» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sea mouse» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sea mouse

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA MOUSE»

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Chatterbox
THE SEA -MOUSE. I FEEL quite sure that even the little people who read Chatterbox or who have it read to them, as the case may be, know as well as I can tell them what a mouse is. Perhaps, some very little ones feel inclined to scream and ...
‎1867
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Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous ...
Aphrodite australis Baird, 1865 Phylum Annelida Class Polychaeta Family Aphroditidae The sea mouse, Aphrodite australis, may grow to about 15 cm in length. Its common name 'sea mouse' is due to its deep, broadly oval body, covered with ...
Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, 2010
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Encyclopedia of the Aquatic World: Starfish
Worm IN SIGhT FIBER-OPTIC SEA MICE The sea mouse is a polychaete that lives in the deep sea. This worm is cloaked in a pelt of fine spines that normally appear deep red. However, when light falls on a spine from the side, different colors ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2004
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CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference
(1) Stellaria crispa; (2) BERING SEA MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED, RUFFLED STARWORT; (3) caryophyllaceae; (4) Aniakchak National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Glacier Bay National Park, Glacier National Park, Katmai National ...
Tim Johnson, 1998
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Woodworth's American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge
THE. PEICKLY. SEA-MOUSE. fTlHIS marine animal, belonging to a very low order, is about J- six or eight inches in length. It has scales, or plates, upon its back ; but these are covered by a filmy substance, which resembles tow, and arises ...
Francis Channing Woodworth, 1854
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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones
Does it hatch into a small but recognizable sea mouse? Young forms have been seen, but not egg-sized ones. No one knows. In fact, so little is known about their reproduction and youthful development that sea mice might just as well be born ...
Sue Hubbell, 2000
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The children's year
Herbert thought that certainly he never had seen such a creature before, and was getting quite excited when the old man said, — " Why yes, it's a sea-mouse ; there's plenty of them hereabouts, and they are very handsome in sperrits ! " This  ...
Mary Howitt, 1847
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The Water in Between: A Journey At Sea
Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to Tahiti and back, to burn away his failings in hard miles at sea. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kevin Patterson, 2011
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The Basics of Biology
Recently, biologists looking advances in closely at the spines of the sea mouse made a remark— able discovery. The sea mouse is a type of worm that lives on deep ocean floors, where there is little light. To advertise its presence to potential  ...
Anne Wanjie, 2013
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Mouse 2
a live Headless mouse is Found in tHe endless expanse oF tHe rodent sea FloatinG on an old piano Sea mouse Clyde Woo III was the first to see it. Then, other rodents on the freighter out of Mousetown the Busy Bee started also seeing it, and ...
Daniel S. Knowles, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA MOUSE»

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Do you know what this hairy sea creature is?
Once back home she searched on the internet to find out what it was they had seen and discovered it was a sea mouse - a marine worm covered with distinctive ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, May 15»
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Rare sea creature washes up on Dorset beach
Biomedical scientist Paul Harris was walking along West Bexington Beach when he stumbled upon a Sea Mouse, which can usually be found buried up to ... «Dorset Echo, Mar 14»
3
Sussex underwater creatures displaced by storms
The Sussex Wildlife Trust later identified it as a sea mouse, pictured above, a worm-like creature covered in setae or whisker type hairs and 10cm to 15cm in ... «The Argus, Jan 14»
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Like a fish out of water: The bizarre sea mouse washed up on a Kent …
The Sea Mouse - a type of marine worm normally found up to 6,600ft below ... The sea mouse is usually found in the North Atlantic, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea ... «Daily Mail, Jan 13»
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The Hidden World of Heart Urchins
The 4 cm long nocturnal sea mouse is a kind of heart urchin with thin spines Rich MooiThe nocturnal sea mouse, four centimeters long, is a kind of heart urchin ... «New York Times, Jun 11»

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