Definition of Doliolum

1. Noun. Free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body.

Generic synonyms: Tunicate, Urochord, Urochordate
Group relationships: Genus Doliolum

Definition of Doliolum

1. n. A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

Medical Definition of Doliolum

1. A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations. Origin: L. Doliolum a small cask. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doliolum

dolichoprosopic
dolichostenomelia
dolichouranic
dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide - protein glycotransferase
dolichyl-phosphate-mannose-glycolipid alpha-mannosyltransferase
dolichyl-phosphate-mannose - protein mannosyltransferase
dolichyl-phosphate-mannose phosphodiesterase
dolichyl-phosphate alpha-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
dolichyldiphosphatase
dolina
dolinas
doline
dolines
doling
dolioform
doliolum (current term)
dolium
doll
doll's eye sign
doll's eyes
doll's house
doll's houses
doll up
dollar
dollar-sign
dollar bill
dollar day
dollar days
dollar diplomacy
dollar mark

Literary usage of Doliolum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"doliolum may be looked upon as a form which has inherited a process of alternation of generations from the ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Some—doliolum, Otto—are even destitute of ribs, their form resembling that of a barrel without a bottom(4). ..."

3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"... the cycle of generations of doliolum consists of two successive asexual ... ma v be tabulated as follows :— Alternation of Generations in doliolum. ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"In the free-swimming pelagic doliolum (Fig. 735) the shape is widely different from that of the ordinary fixed forms. ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Canada, Feb. 15, 1861. On the Development o/'doliolum. By MM. KEFERSTEIN and EHLERS. According to the authors, ..."

6. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster, Edwin Ray Lankester (1898)
"... AND doliolum, TWO GENERA OF THE TUNICATA Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1851, //. it. pp. ..."

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