APPENDICULARIA

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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