Word Meanings - TUNICATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.

• WATERHOG
  The capybara.
• Water cress
  A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
• Water rabbit
  See Water hare.
• Classicalist
  One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
• Intermediate
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.
• WATERLINE
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heig
• Water elder
  The guelder-rose.
• Water sail
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• Classmen
  of Classman
• Series
  A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
• WATERMURRAIN
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.
• Water speedwell
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• WATERBAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.]
• Unitable
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise.
• WATERPITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.

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