ASCIDIAN TADPOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ascidian tadpole mean? 

• ASCIDIAN TADPOLE (noun)
  The noun ASCIDIAN TADPOLE has 1 sense:

1. free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord

  Familiarity information: ASCIDIAN TADPOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCIDIAN TADPOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)