noun. Any of various chordate marine animals of the subphylum Urochordata (or Tunicata), having a cylindrical or globular body enclosed in a tough outer covering and a notochord in the larval stage, and including the sea squirts and salps.

adjective. Of or relating to the tunicates.

adjective. Having a tunic.

adjective. Having a tunic, as the bulb of an onion.

In zoology, coated; covered with tunics or integuments; specifically, enveloped in membranous integuments or tunics, as an ascidian; of or pertaining to the Tunicata; tunicated.

In entomology, covered one by another, like a set of thimbles, as the joints of some antennæ.

In botany, covered with a tunic or membrane; coated.

noun. A tunic.

noun. An ascidian, tunicary, or sea-squirt; any member of the Tunicata.

proper noun. One of the Tunicata.

adjective. Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.

adjective. Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennæ of insects.

noun. Any of very many chordate marine animals, of the subphylum Tunicata or Urochordata, including the sea squirts.

adjective. Of or pertaining to these animals.

adjective. Enclosed in a tunic or mantle; covered or coated with layers.

adjective. Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects.

noun. primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva

"The predatory tunicate, a species of sea squirt, looks like a voracious, headless mouth on a glass stalk, and is unique among tunicates in being a true predator — its mouth closing swiftly on shrimp and other crustaceans that stray into it."

tunicate club  tunicate joints  

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appendicularia  ascidian  doliolum  larvacean  salp  

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