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ASCIDIAN TADPOLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ascidian tadpole" is a kind of...):
larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)
Holonyms ("ascidian tadpole" is a member of...):
Ascidiaceae; class Ascidiaceae (sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts)