Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various sedentary tunicates of the class Ascidiacea, having a transparent sac-shaped body with two siphons. Also called ascidian.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any ascidian or tunicate: so called from their squirting water when they contract.
Wiktionary
- n. Any sessile tunicate, of the class Ascidiacea, which squirts water from two openings when touched; they are filter feeders
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Zoöl.) An ascidian. See
Illust. under tunicata.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water
Etymologies
- From its habit of squirting water when disturbed. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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