Ascidian Definition

əsidēən
noun
Any of a class (Ascidiacea) of fixed tunicates; sea squirt.
Webster's New World

Any member of the class Ascidiacea (the sea squirts)

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Ascidian

Noun

Singular:
ascidian
Plural:
ascidians

Ascidian Sentence Examples

  • Sphaerothylacus polycarpus (Sluiter, 1884) has an ascidian for its host.

  • In accordance with this view there would be also some probability in favour of regarding the collar nerve-tube of the Enteropneusta as the equivalent of the cerebral vesicle only of Amphioxus and the Ascidian tadpole, and also of the primary forebrain of vertebrates.

  • Further, he includes in it his own Enterognathus comatulae, not from an ascidian, but from the intestine of the beautiful starfish Antedon rosaceus.

  • Styela gelatinosa is a nationally rare solitary ascidian (sea squirt) which has a soft pear-shaped body about 3-4 cm tall.

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Words Starting With

AASASC

Words Ending With

NANIAN

Unscrambles

ascidian

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

Starts With A & Ends With NStarts With AS & Ends With NStarts With A & Ends With AN

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