Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a urochord; urochordate; of or pertaining to the urochord or the Urochorda. Compare notochordal, parachordal.
- The tunicates or ascidians regarded as a branch of Chordata, correlated with Hemichorda, Cephalochorda, and Craniata: same as
Ascidia , 1: so called from the possession, permanently or transiently, of a urochord.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
tunicata .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tunicates
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Urochorda = the ascidians, or sea-squirts, certain forms of life only recently recognised as relatives of the vertebrata.
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