ASCIDIAN

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Meaning:

Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("ascidian" is a kind of...):

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascidian"):

sea squirt (ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water)

Holonyms ("ascidian" is a member of...):

Ascidiaceae; class Ascidiaceae (sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts)