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DOLIOLUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does doliolum mean?
• DOLIOLUM (noun)
The noun DOLIOLUM has 1 sense:
1. free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body
Familiarity information: DOLIOLUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("doliolum" 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 ("doliolum" is a member of...):
genus Doliolum (type genus of the Doliolidae)
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