单词 | tunicate |
释义 | tunicate (once / 140707 pages) n WORD FAMILY tunicate: tunicates USAGE EXAMPLESThe team debates whether the blob could be a salp or a tunicate, or maybe "an egg sac of some sort." National Geographic(Jul 28, 2016) The predatory tunicate waits for its prey, then envelopes its next meal using its entire body. Time(Jun 03, 2016) Salps are part of a group called tunicates, says Madin, a tunicate specialist. National Geographic(Jul 22, 2015) n primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva Syn|Hypo|Hyper urochord, urochordate ascidian minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves salp, salpaminute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end doliolumfree-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body larvaceanany member of the class Larvacea appendiculariafree-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates sea squirtascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water chordate any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column |
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