TUNICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tunicate mean? 

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

1. primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUNICATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

tunicate; urochord; urochordate

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

chordate (any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tunicate"):

ascidian (minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves)

salp; salpa (minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end)

doliolum (free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body)

larvacean (any member of the class Larvacea)

appendicularia (free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates)

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

subphylum Tunicata; subphylum Urochorda; subphylum Urochordata; Tunicata; Urochorda; Urochordata (tunicates)

 Context examples 

A cyclic depsipeptide extracted from the Caribbean tunicate Trididemnum cyanophorum.

(Didemnin B, NCI Thesaurus)