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tunicary

tunicary noun: tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).

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

Forms of tunicary

pluraltunicaries

Origin of tunicary

From Latin tunica (“a tunic”).

Questions about tunicary

What does tunicary mean?
Tunicary means tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).
What part of speech is tunicary?
Tunicary is a noun.
What is the plural of tunicary?
The plural of tunicary is tunicaries.

Words near tunicary in the dictionary

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

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