Appendicularia
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Ap·pen·dic·u·lar·ia
: a genus of small free-swimming pelagic tunicates shaped somewhat like a tadpole and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other tunicates
Appendicularia
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variants or appendiculariae
-rēˌē
taxonomic synonym of larvacea
Word History
Etymology
Noun
New Latin, from Latin appendicula appendicle + New Latin -aria
New Latin, from Latin appendicula + New Latin -aria, -ariae