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Appendicularia

Appendicularia Meaning & Definition
Appendicularia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Appendicularia?

[n] free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates

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See Also | genus Appendicularia | tunicate | urochord | urochordate

Appendicularia In Webster's Dictionary

\Ap`pen*dic`u*la"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larv[ae] of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

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