Definition of tunic

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Tunic (n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye..

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Tunic :: Tunic (n.) Same as Tunicle.
Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks..
Doliolum :: Doliolum (n.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations..
Desmomyaria :: Desmomyaria (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
Sublapsarian :: Subkingdom (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia..
Urochorda :: Urochorda (n. pl.) Same as Tunicata.
Thaliacea :: Thaliacea (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum..
Chordata :: Chordata (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord..
Appendicularia :: Appendicularia (n.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix..
Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.
Neptunicentric :: Neptunicentric (a.) As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force..
Salpa :: Salpa (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix..
Tunicate :: Tunicate (n.) One of the Tunicata.
Tunicated :: Tunicated (a.) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects..
Tunic :: Tunic (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others..
Laticlave :: Laticlave (n.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office..
Sea Squirt :: Sea squirt () An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
Ascidium :: Ascidium (n.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata..
Tunicin :: Tunicin (n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom..
Tunic :: Tunic (n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye..
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