sea squirt

English

A sea squirt, Polycarpa aurata

Alternative forms

• sea-squirt

Etymology

From sea +‎ squirt.

Noun

sea squirt (plural sea squirts)

1. Any sessile tunicate of the class Ascidiacea, which expels water from two openings when disturbed; they are filter feeders.

Translations

animal of the class Ascidiacea

• Bulgarian: асцидия f (ascidija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海鞘 (zh) (hǎiqiào)

• Czech: sumka (cs) f
• Dutch: zakpijp (nl) f
• Finnish: merituppi
• German: Seescheide (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: τήθυον n (tḗthuon)

• Italian: ascidia f
• Japanese: ホヤ (hoya)
• Korean: 멍게 (meongge), 우렁쉥이 (ureongsweng'i)
• Māori: kāeo
• Polish: żachwa f
• Portuguese: tunicado
• Romanian: ascidie (ro) f
• Spanish: ascidia (es) f
• Swedish: sjöpung (sv) c

See also

• cunji