| NOUN | animal | urochord, tunicate, urochordate | primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva |
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| animal | urochord | a notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region |
| Meaning | Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva. | |
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| Synonyms | tunicate, urochordate | |
| Member of | Urochordata, subphylum Urochordata, Urochorda, subphylum Urochorda, Tunicata, subphylum Tunicata | tunicates |
| Narrower | appendicularia | free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates |
| ascidian | minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | |
| doliolum | free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body | |
| larvacean | Any member of the class Larvacea | |
| salp, salpa | minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end | |
| Broader | chordate | Any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column |
| Spanish | urochordate, urocordado | |
| Catalan | urochordate, urocordat | |
| Meaning | A notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region. | |
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| Broader | notochord | A flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates |
| Spanish | urocordio | |
| Catalan | urocordi | |
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