Word Meanings - THALIACEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

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• SALPA
  A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: Each species exists in two distinct forms, one of which lives solitary, and produces, by budding from
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• DOLIOLUM
  A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.
• COMPRISAL
  The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• COMPRISE
  To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• TUNICATA
  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
• SWIMMERET
  One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
• SWIMMER
  A protuberance on the leg of a horse. (more info) 1. One who swims.
• SWIMMINGLY
  In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• FREE-SWIMMING
  Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.