Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tunicate
Tunicate
tunicate
n. & adj. --n. any marine animal of the subphylum Urochordata having a rubbery or hard outer coat, including sea squirts. --adj. 1 Zool. of or relating to this subphylum. 2 a Zool. enclosed in a tunic. b Bot. having concentric layers. Etymology: L tunicatus past part. of tunicare clothe with a tunic (as TUNICA)
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I. adjective also ~d Etymology: Latin tunicatus, from tunica Date: circa 1623 1. having or covered with a tunic or tunica, having, arranged in, or made up of concentric layers , of or relating to the ~s, II. noun Etymology: New Latin Tunicata, from neuter plural of Latin tunicatus Date: 1889 any of a subphylum (Urochordata syn. Tunicata) of marine chordate animals (as ascidians) that are filter feeders having a thick secreted covering layer, a greatly reduced nervous system, and only in the larval stage a notochord ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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