appendicularia

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appendicularia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Appendicularia \Ap`pen*dic`u*la"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Zool.)
     A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like
     a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larv[ae] of
     other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or
     Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.
     [1913 Webster]

appendicularia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  appendicularia
      n 1: free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling
           larvae of other tunicates