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    ASCIDIAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leavesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

    sea squirt (ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water)

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

    Ascidiaceae; class Ascidiaceae (sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts)

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