Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ascidian_tadpole

1 sense of ascidian tadpole

Sense 1
ascidian tadpole -- (free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord)
       => larva -- (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)