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Definition of Sea squirt
1. Noun. Ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water.
Definition of Sea squirt
1. Noun. Any sessile tunicate, of the class ''Ascidiacea'', which squirts water from two openings when touched; they are filter feeders ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea squirt
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Squirt
Literary usage of Sea squirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"The assertion that the youthful sea-squirt, moreover, possesses first a rod-like
body—called the notochord (Fig. 17, «)—only found besides in the young of ..."
2. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"The fact of vertebrate and sea-squirt relationship is worth dwelling upon, ...
Like the youthful barnacle somewhat, the young sea-squirt attaches itself to ..."
3. Winners in Life's Race, Or, The Great Backboned Family by Arabella Burton Buckley (1882)
"But they were not always Diagram of the growth of a Sea-Squirt or stationary, as
you Ascidian. ' / Aa, Young free swimming stage, a2, . . see them fixed to ..."
4. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"Because, if the young sea-squirt can exhibit a well-defined rudimentär}' spinal
column extending into a tail, not normal to the matured ..."
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