UROCHORDATE

tunicate, urochordate, urochord

(noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

urochordate (plural urochordates)

(zoology) Any marine invertebrate of the subphylum Urochordata; the sea squirts

Synonyms

• tunicate

Source: Wiktionary



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28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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