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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A class of animals connecting the molluscoid invertebrates with the Vertebrata; the tunicates, tunicaries, or sea-squirts, otherwise called Tunicata, Ascozoa, Urochorda, or Protovertebrata (in part); the ascidians.
  • [Used as a singular.] Less proper form of Ascidium.
  • [lowercase] Plural of ascidium, 2.

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