tunicate

Other forms of tunicate

plural

tunicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tunicate

What does tunicate mean?

tunicate means "primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva".

How many syllables are in tunicate?

tunicate has 3 syllables: tu-ni-cate. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtunɪkət/.

What is another word for tunicate?

Close synonyms include urochordate, urochord. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tunicate a common word?

tunicate 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.