Definitions for ascidian

ascidian as·cid·i·an

Spelling: [uh-sid-ee-uh n]
IPA: /əˈsɪd i ən/

Ascidian is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in ascidian (aacdiins).

Definitions for ascidian

noun

  1. any solitary or colonial tunicate of the class Ascidiacea, exhibiting in the larval stage the vertebrate characteristics of a notocord and hollow nerve cord.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the class Ascidiacea.

Origin of ascidian

1855-60; New Latin Ascidi(um) a tunicate genus (see ascidium) + -an

Examples for ascidian

In each of us there slumber all the impressions of all our predecessors, up to the earliest ascidian.

Chabry had published in 1887 some interesting results on the ascidian egg, which strongly supported the Roux-Weismann theory.

He further observed the maneuvers executed by the crab to secure the attachment of an ascidian to its shell.

When retracted it has the aspect of an ascidian, and for a time was supposed to belong to that group.

So that in this respect the ascidian larva is nearer to the original type than the tadpole or any other existing animal.

Castle77 observed and studied the phenomenon of self-sterility in an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, which is hermaphroditic.

Appendicularia is a curious little ascidian, differing from all the others in its possession of a tail.

The ascidian has only one eye inside its useless brain, while the tadpole and all other vertebrates have two from the very first.

The beginning of man an ascidian—his ultimate development as an angel, a pear-shaped, transparent bag.

The ascidian when born is a tiny, free-swimming, tadpole-like creature with a slender finned tail.

Word Value for ascidian
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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