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Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva
Answer for the clue "Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva ", 8 letters:
tunicate
Word definitions for tunicate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tunicate \Tu"ni*cate\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Tunicata.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tunicate is a marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata , which is part of the Chordata , a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords . The subphylum was at one time called Urochordata , and the term ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760, from Latin tunicatus "clothed with a tunic only (i.e. without a toga), in shirt-sleeves," past participle of tunicare "to clothe in a tunic," from tunica (see tunic ). As a noun, from 1848.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva [syn: urochordate , urochord ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to these animals. 2 (context anatomy botany English) Enclosed in a tunic or mantle; covered or coated with layers. 3 (context zoology English) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects. ...
Usage examples of tunicate.
For instance, a very primitive ancestor of us vertebrates is the ocean-dwelling tunicate, which has no brain.
Quinn of the University of California, these tunicate colonies have "immune systems" that can detect other B.
It is also reasonable to assume that the principle employed by the tunicate will eventually be understood, so that we can make a "vanadium concentrator" along the same lines, but without the tunicate.