tunicary

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noun

tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).

OriginLatin tunica →
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Meanings

nountunicary (plural tunicaries)

plural tunicaries

  1. obsoletebiologytunicate (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

Origin

  1. Latintunica“a tunic”
  2. Englishtunicary

From Latin tunica (“a tunic”).

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APA

tunicary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tunicary

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Chicago

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