appendicularianadj.n.
/apənˌdɪkjʊˈlɛːrɪən/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Pertaining to the Appendicularia, a family of minute ascidian molluscs, with long tail-appendages.
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1881 Mod. Rev. Jan. 383 What is there that is impossible, let me ask, in the idea of the primitive race of Ascidians (represented to-day by Appendicularian-forms) still continuing to exist contemporaneously with the Vertebrate forms?
B. n.
A member of this family.
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appendicularian1880
1880 A. Wilson in Gentleman's Mag. 246 43 The appendicularians..the existing representatives of the stock and ancestry which gave origin alike to the sea-squirt race and to the great vertebrate group itself.
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adj.n.1880