sea squirt: see tunicate tunicate , marine animal of the phylum Chordata, which also includes the vertebrates. The adult form of most tunicates (also called urochordates) shows no resemblance to vertebrate animals, but such a resemblance is evident in the larva.
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sea squirt

Any tunicate in the class Ascidiacea; found in seas worldwide. Resembling potatoes more than animals, they are permanently fixed to a surface. A forceful contraction of the adult's vaselike body shoots a jet of seawater when it is disturbed. They filter-feed near the shore on debris from dead plants and animals and, in deeper water, on plankton. Adults, from less than 1 in. to 1 ft (2–30 cm) long, have functional male and female reproductive organs. The free-swimming, tadpolelike larvae hatch from eggs shed by one individual and fertilized by another. Some species live individually, others in colonies.

sea squirt [′sē ‚skwərt]

(invertebrate zoology)

A sessile, marine tunicate of the class Ascidiacea; it squirts water from two openings in the unattached end when touched or disturbed.

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The translucent creatures were sea squirts, animals that usually feed by pushing seawater through their bodies and filtering out plankton.

Jason encounters the carnivorous sea squirt by Nevala, Amy E.; Lippsett, Lonny / Oceanus

Byline: Stephen Kiesling - The sea squirt is a creature that swims around until it finds the perfect rock, where it attaches itself, digests its own brain, and becomes a plant.

Lessons from the Sea Squirt by Kiesling, Stephen / Spirituality & Health Magazine

Light bulb sea squirt This transparent creature is half the size of a person's little finger and looks like an electric light.

Our blue planet; sponsored by Environment Agency NATURAL ENGLAND by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)