tunicary
English
Etymology
From Latin tunica (“a tunic”).
Noun
tunicary (plural tunicaries)
- (obsolete, zoology) tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).
- 1851, John Weale, A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells:
- The social and compound tunicaries resemble zoophytes, in the power they possess of budding out new individuals, and thus of multiplying their communities indefinitely, as the leaves on a tree.
References
- “tunicary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.