tunicary

English

Etymology

From Latin tunica (“a tunic”).

Noun

tunicary (plural tunicaries)

1. (obsolete, zoology) tunicate (One of the Urochordata (syn. Tunicata)).
   • 1851, John Weale, A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells:

     The social and compound tunicaries resemble zoophytes, in the power they possess of budding out new individuals, and thus of multiplying their communities indefinitely, as the leaves on a tree.

References

• “tunicary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nycturia