tunicate

Any of various chordate marine animals of the subphylum Urochordata (or Tunicata), having a cylindrical or globular body enclosed in a tough outer covering and a notochord in the larval stage, and including the sea squirts and salps.

Of or relating to the tunicates.

Having a tunic.

Having a tunic, as the bulb of an onion.

In zoology, coated; covered with tunics or integuments; specifically, enveloped in membranous integuments or tunics, as an ascidian; of or pertaining to the Tunicata; tunicated.

In entomology, covered one by another, like a set of thimbles, as the joints of some antennæ.

In botany, covered with a tunic or membrane; coated.

A tunic.

An ascidian, tunicary, or sea-squirt; any member of the Tunicata.

One of the Tunicata.