ASCIDIAN


Meaning of ASCIDIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈsi-dē-ən ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Ascidia, group comprising tunicates, from Ascidium, genus name, from Greek askidion, diminutive of askos wineskin, bladder

Date: 1835

: any of a class (Ascidiacea) of solitary or colonial sessile tunicates having an incurrent and excurrent siphon — called also sea squirt

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