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n. - Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva.

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  • In the same way we can infer intelligence behind adding pictures to the same slide as he names them a fruit fly, a tunicate, a panda bear, a little girl, or Richard Dawkins.
  • And not just because of what the ride does to the poor helpless tunicate population, who should be calling an attorney right now and suing for misrepresentation, except,...
  • Maybe something tunicate-like and sea squirtish back in the Cambrian, but surely not THESE sea squirts.
  • But we will pass over these cases in order to dwell more particularly on the remarkable tunicate known as
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