Definitions for ascidians

ascidians as·cid·i·an

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

Ascidians is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in ascidians (aacdiinss).

Definitions for ascidians

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 ascidians

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

Examples for ascidians

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for ascidians
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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