doris

See also: Doris

English

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Noun

doris

1. A sea slug.
   • 1858, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, page 536:

     It is a doris, or sea-slug, and is about of the consistence of one of those slugs so destructive to our garden flowers, but is so much more beautiful than that creature, that, were he able to understand us, we should ask pardon for the comparison.

Derived terms

• salt-and-pepper doris

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δῶρις (dôris).

Noun

dōris f (genitive dōridis); third declension

1. A kind of bugloss

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dōris	dōridēs
genitive	dōridis	dōridum
dative	dōridī	dōridibus
accusative	dōridem	dōridēs
ablative	dōride	dōridibus
vocative	dōris	dōridēs

References

• “doris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.