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Definition of Tunicates

1. tunicate [n] - See also: tunicate

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunicates

tunhoof tunic tunic tunica tunica tunicae tunicae funiculi spermatici tunicamycin tunicary tunicata

Tunicata tunicate tunicate tunicated tunicated tunicates (current term) tunica abdominalis tunica adventitia tunica albuginea tunica albuginea corporis spongiosi

tunica albuginea corporum cavernosorum tunica albuginea oculi tunica albuginea of corpora cavernosi tunica albuginea of corpus spongiosum tunica albuginea of testis tunica albuginea testes tunica albuginea testis tunica carnea tunica conjunctiva tunica conjunctiva bulbi

Literary usage of Tunicates

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1. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"CHAPTER XXVI THE tunicates, OR ASCIDIANS TRUCTURE of tunicates.—One of the most singular groups of animals is that known as Ascidians, or tunicates. ..."

2. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"Main Class of the Tube-hearted, or Skull-less Animals (the Lancelet) — Blood Relationship between the Skull-less Fish and the tunicates. ..."

3. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"THE tunicates AND VERTEBRATES. The Records of the Creation of Vertebrate Animals (Comparative Anatomy, Embryology, and Palaeontology). ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"The tunicates are simple or compound, and have the body enclosed in a saccular integumentary ... The tunicates or Ascidians are all inhabitants of the sea, ..."

5. Young Folks' Pictures and Stories of Animals: For Home and School by Abby Amy Tenney (1886)
"THE tunicates, OR CLOAKED MOLLUSKS. THESE curious mollusks have no true shell, but they have ... There are many kinds of tunicates ; some kinds live singly, ..."

6. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"The tunicates (tu'nlk atz), also found along the coast, are quite different in their adult structure. They occur FIG. 118. either as single individuals of ..."

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