| 单词 | sea squirt |
| 释义 | sea squirtnounany tunicate, especially a sessile ascidian, so called from its habit of contracting its body and ejecting streams of water when disturbed. Origin of sea squirtFirst recorded in 1840–50 Words nearby sea squirtseasoning, season ticket, sea spider, sea squab, sea squill, sea squirt, sea stack, sea star, sea steps, sea stores, seastrand Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sea squirt
British Dictionary definitions for sea squirtsea squirt nounany minute primitive marine animal of the class Ascidiacea, most of which are sedentary, having a saclike body with openings through which water enters and leavesSee also ascidian Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for sea squirtsea squirt Any of various tunicates of the class Ascidiacea, having a transparent sac-shaped body with two siphons. One of the siphons is used to draw water (carrying oxygen and food particles) into the body, while the other expels it. Sea squirts are free-swimming as larvae but sessile as adults. Like other tunicates, sea squirts are chordates, but they have a notochord only in the larval stage. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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