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from The Century Dictionary.

  • One of two classes of tunicates or ascidians (the other being Saccata), considered as a branch of vertebrates under the name Urochorda (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See appendicularia.

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