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Definition of Appendicularia
1. Noun. Free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates.
Definition of Appendicularia
1. n. A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.
Medical Definition of Appendicularia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Appendicularia
Literary usage of Appendicularia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"In the interior is an elaborate apparatus for filtering out the minute organisms
from the water as it passes through. In appendicularia and ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"... I gave an account of a very singular animal which had been frequently observed
and described under various names, as appendicularia (Chamisso), ..."
3. The Evolution of Man by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haecknel (1879)
"This is the remarkable appendicularia (Fig. 187), which we have already examined.
If we ask ourselves what conditions of adaptation could possibly have had ..."
4. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1915)
"appendicularia Fol, 1874, being preoccupied by appendicularia Cham. & Eis., 1821,
according to the rules requires a new name and I propose in its place ..."
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