资料来源 : pyDict
有被膜的,有被囊的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Tunicate \Tu"ni*cate\, Tunicated \Tu"ni*ca`ted\, a. [L.
tunicatus, p. p. of tunicare to clothe with a tunic, fr.
tunica a tunic.]
1. (Bot.) Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with
layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the
Tunicata.
(b) Having each joint buried in the preceding
funnel-shaped one, as in certain antenn[ae] of
insects.
Tunicate \Tu"ni*cate\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the Tunicata.
资料来源 : WordNet®
tunicate
n : primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body
and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva
[syn: {urochordate}, {urochord}]