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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typicalgenus of the family Appendiculariidæ.
- noun [lowercase; pl. appendiculariæ (-ē).] A member of the above genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See
Illustration in Appendix.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates
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The ideal figure of the vertebrate as given in Figures 1.98 to 1.102 is a hypothetical scheme or diagram, that has been chiefly constructed on the lines of the amphioxus, but with a certain attention to the comparative anatomy and ontogeny of the ascidia and appendicularia on the one hand, and of the cyclostoma and selachii on the other.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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