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tunicaries

tunicaries is the plural of tunicary.

Meaning of tunicary

Noun

tunicary (plural tunicaries)

  1. (obsolete) tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).
    • 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.1851, John Weale, A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells

Questions about tunicaries

What is tunicaries the plural of?
Tunicaries is the plural of tunicary.

Words near tunicaries in the dictionary

  1. tunicae mediae
  2. tunicae mucosae
  3. tunicae serosae
  4. tunical
  5. tunicamycin
  6. tunicaries
  7. tunicary
  8. tunicas
  9. tunicate
  10. tunicated
  11. tunicates

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