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tunica

n. an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue [syn: tunic, adventitia]

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Tunica, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 1132
Housing Units (2000): 592
Land area (2000): 0.712651 sq. miles (1.845758 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.712651 sq. miles (1.845758 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74760
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.688797 N, 90.380587 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38676
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Tunica, MS
Tunica
Tunica -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 9227
Housing Units (2000): 3705
Land area (2000): 454.808800 sq. miles (1177.949335 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 25.972426 sq. miles (67.268272 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 480.781226 sq. miles (1245.217607 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.672958 N, 90.373780 W
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Tunica, MS
Tunica County
Tunica County, MS
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Tunica

Tunica may refer to:

  • The Latin word for tunic, a type of clothing typical in the ancient world
  • Tunica (biology), a general term for a layer, sheath or similar covering
  • "Tunica", an anatomical term for a membranous structure lining a cavity, or covering an organ such as a gland or a blood vessel

:* Tunica albuginea (disambiguation), a term used for three different layers of connective tissue

:* Tunica vasculosa (disambiguation), a term used for two different vascular layers

  • Tunica, a flowering plant genus now included in Petrorhagia
  • Tunica people, a Native American group in the central Mississippi River Valley
  • Tunica language, an isolate of the associated Tunica historic peoples in the central Mississippi River Valley
  • Tunica-Biloxi, a federally recognized tribe Native American tribe in Louisiana
  • Tunica, Louisiana
  • Tunica, Mississippi
  • Tunica County, Mississippi
  • Tunica Resorts, Mississippi
Tunica (biology)

In biology, a tunica (plural tunicae) is a layer, coat, sheath, or similar covering. The word came to English from the New Latin of science and medicine. Its literal sense is about the same as that of the word tunic, with which it is cognate. In biology one of its senses used to be the taxonomic name of a genus of plants, but the nomenclature has been revised and those plants are now included in the genus Petrorhagia.

In modern biology in general, tunica occurs as a technical or anatomical term mainly in botany and zoology. It usually refers to membranous structures that line or cover particular organs. In many such contexts tunica is used interchangeably with tunic according to preference. An organ or organism that has a tunic(a) may be said to be tunicate, as in a tunicate bulb. This adjective tunicate is not to be confused with the noun tunicate, which refers to a member of the sub phylum Tunicata.

Usage examples of "tunica".

I still had Eldri, tucked securely in the fold where my tunica bloused over my belt.

I came away with a tunica the colour of terra cotta, banded at the hem with green and gold, and a palla of green wool to wear with it, and another ensemble in the rosy shades of dawn.

I dragged the nearest garment over my head, and with tousled hair and the sheer tunica unbelted, ran out into the entry.

I hissed as one of the soldiers made a grab for me, tearing my tunica from the fibula that held it at the shoulder so that it fell, leaving one breast bare.

I will wear the tunica of forest-green silk, and over it the sea-green pallium.

Fausta was reclining on a couch upholstered in crimson brocade which clashed with the purple tunica she wore.

I had a client, a young black man from Tunica who was just passing through Sunflower County.

He walked through the crowded streets, a dark man in a dark tunica big man, powerfully muscled, who carried himself as lightly and easily as a dancer.

Even so, Tal stood resplendent in a pair of new wide-legged trousersthe current fashionwith his boots covered to the buckles, and a broad black leather belt, but he chose to wear a currently out-of-fashion tunica yellow doublet sewn with seed pearls.

In her honor the Tunica annually danced the Sun Dance and placed her statue, together with that of a frog, on altars in their homes.

A fourth man, very lean and wearing the most elaborate palmata wound over his tunica, spoke at last.

Tal stood resplendent in a pair of new wide-legged trousersthe current fashionwith his boots covered to the buckles, and a broad black leather belt, but he chose to wear a currently out-of-fashion tunica yellow doublet sewn with seed pearls.

Big developers out of Nevada and New Jersey docked riverboats in Tunica and wiped out any chance that a small, independent operation like the Crescent might still exist.

Bureau of the Census report, the poorest community in the United States is Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi.

Hrodlind appeared in the doorway, and seeing that I was up, hurried to set out a fresh shift and one of my finer tunicas, the saffron silk with embroideries of wheat sheaves around the hem.