sea squirt

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   ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water

   Broaderascidian

Questions about sea squirt

What does sea squirt mean?

sea squirt means "ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water".

Is sea squirt a common word?

sea squirt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.