Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A division of tunicates, containing the free-swimming forms, or the salps and doliolids: distinguished from
Ascidiacea . Also Thaliæ, Thaliadæ, Thalida, Thalides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small class of free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order
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