tunicary

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English

Etymology

From Latin tunica (a tunic).

Noun

tunicary (plural tunicaries)

  1. (obsolete, zoology) tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).
    • 1851, John Weale, A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells:
      The social and compound tunicaries resemble zoophytes, in the power they possess of budding out new individuals, and thus of multiplying their communities indefinitely, as the leaves on a tree.

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