Any of various chordate marine animals of the subphylum Tunicata or Urochordata having a cylindrical or globular body enclosed in a tough outer covering and including the sea squirts and salps.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of or relating to the tunicates. 2.Anatomy Having a tunic. 3.Botany Having a tunic, as the bulb of an onion.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin tunictus, past participle of tunicre, to clothe with a tunic, from tunica, tunic. See tunic.
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