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Ascidian

noun
1.
Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.



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"Ascidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Deity, to be a certain little pulsation of a certain little mass of animal pap,the brain. Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian. ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... the species of the only animal they have the opportunity of studying inside and out, between one and sixty-three; and disputing about the origin, in past ages, of what they cannot define in the present ones; and deciphering the filthy heraldries which record the relation of humanity to the ascidian and the crocodile, you have ceased utterly to distinguish between the two species of man, evermore separate by infinite separation: of whom the one, capable of loyalty and of love, can at least conceive spiritual natures which have no taint from their own, and leave behind them, diffused among ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Ascidian" :   class Ascidiaceae, urochord, Ascidiaceae, urochordate, tunicate, sea squirt


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