LARVACEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larvacean mean? 

• LARVACEAN (noun)
  The noun LARVACEAN has 1 sense:

1. any member of the class Larvacea

  Familiarity information: LARVACEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARVACEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the class Larvacea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("larvacean" is a kind of...):

tunicate; urochord; urochordate (primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva)

Holonyms ("larvacean" is a member of...):

class Larvacea; Larvacea (small free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order)