"sea squirt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sea squirts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sea squirt (plural sea squirts)
  1. Any sessile tunicate, of the class Ascidiacea, which squirts water from two openings when touched; they are filter feeders Wikipedia link: sea squirt Categories (lifeform): Chordates Related terms: cunji Translations (animal of the class Ascidiacea): τήθυον (tḗthuon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), zakpijp [feminine] (Dutch), merituppi (Finnish), ascidia [feminine] (Italian), ホヤ (hoya) (Japanese), 멍게 (meongge) (Korean), 우렁쉥이 (ureongsweng'i) (Korean), kāeo (Maori), tunicado (Portuguese), sjöpung [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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