tunicates
Meaning of tunicates
plural noun
a marine invertebrate of a group which includes the sea squirts and salps. They have a rubbery or hard outer coat and two siphons to draw water into and out of the body.
mid 18th century: from Latin tunicatus, past participle of tunicare ‘clothe with a tunic’, from tunica (see tunica).
Information about tunicates
- It is a name.
- The singular form of tunicates is: tunicate.
- Languages in which tunicates is used:
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Hyphenation of tunicates
tu-ni-cates
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- tunicates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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