APPENDICULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appendicularia mean? 

• APPENDICULARIA (noun)
  The noun APPENDICULARIA has 1 sense:

1. free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates

  Familiarity information: APPENDICULARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPENDICULARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("appendicularia" is a kind of...):

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

Holonyms ("appendicularia" is a member of...):

genus Appendicularia (a genus of chordates in the class Larvacea)